Lottery Case

'The lottery' is maybe based on the olden days, who religion is of the pagin gods:" 'lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.' "(pgb298 shirley jackson).The towns peoples do a human sacrifice for corn? In 'The Lottery' the attitudes of the towns people are without remorse and afraid of change because they believe that their very existence is threated by change. The town peoples attitudes are differnt from young, old, to male and female. The one thing for sure is that the towns people, have in commen is that they dont really know anything about their ritual.

The young peple in the 'the lottery' are unware of why they are doing the ritual every year. :"Bobby Martin ducked under his mother's grasping hand and ran, laughing, back to the pile of stones"(pg 294 shirley jackson). They throw stones at the one who drew the peicie of paper with a dark cicrle on it. But they are not aware of why they are doing it. they assume it is for the crops of the corn, but the speaker does not say. All the speaker says is that the original ritual has been lost.The children are brought up to do as they are doing, fear of questioning the ritual.They are not thinking of how this is wrong or how it is effecting their very oun society. No one seems to thinkn it wrong that they are murdering someone elses mother or maybe even that they are killing their own mother. The younger people in other cities want to stop it and some aleady have. It seems as though the youger poeople in this city might want to, but dont want to upset the older poeple who base everything on the ritual.

Change is of torture to the older people in the city, they hear of other cities stopping the ritual and thry call them imbisols"pack of crazy fools"(298 shirley jackson). The older people are aslo much more worried about changing the box to a new one for it might rowen there percisius crops and wreck their trsdition:"Mr. Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box"(pg295 shirley jackson)The box is a symbol of unwilling to change and how it to is falling apart just as the tadition is falling apart. They are not worried how ever about how this might be wrong to the people in the city. What they reling on so badky minght just be a bogas tratition. They dont even know if this tirdition is even real they just assume it is because that is what their ancestiours did. The attitudes of the older people are leaving a wrong iimpression on the younger people for they themselves dont know the origitation of the ritual, they are giving the younger generation the okay to kill for mer enjoyment.

The attitudes in 'the lottery' is also differces in men, and women. The men are in charge dramitically in this city for they dont let their women vote or have a say in their society. The women pretty much