Three thoughts of The Lottery
1. How are the children affected by this tradition? I wonder how it’s easy for them to detach themselves from the person that they knew for so long and be able to murder them. It’s crazy that there’s no age limit for participants, that they start them young like little Davey.
2. Why is it that Mr. Summers is in control of all the important traditions the town has? Him being the coal miner owner and the person responsible for putting the black dot on the paper for the lottery seems a little fishy. Makes you wonder how fair the lottery is.
3. Why do they continue to hold the lottery when they halfheartedly believe in it? Everyone is suppose to kill the person with the black dot but no one wants it to be them. If it’s for the best of the town why is it that they only question their methods when they become the target of the lottery.
All these thoughts are very valid for the first one i believe because you start so young you get used to the violence its like cognitive behavior therapy where you a trained to do something with and believe it to be good or okay to do. The part about Mr.summers is a little fishy I never thought of it that way maybe its because he owns the mine and actually leads a dark life and has no children so they give him the upper hand in drawing the dot because he does not have a large family like the rest of the town. why continue to hold the lottery is like asking why continue to have thanksgiving its tradition the true meaning of the vents has been lost or why but we still perform the traditions anyway.
I am really interested in your first thought. A child is so easily influenced and understanding of the world around them because they truly do not know what the social norms are since they have not yet been exposed to it. Children in this short story probably consider the act of detaching themselves from such a close friend to be normal if this happens every year. They are accustomed to the things that should not be considered normal.