The Lottery
Character: Mr. Summers
Plot: Lottery describes the excited yet nervous mood of around 300 residents at a village in an annual ritual known as “the lottery”.
Setting: A small town in contemporary America which has an annual ritual known as "The Lottery"
Mr. Summers is reflective of the tradition of the people of this American town, who allow the lottery, and the significance it has in their lives. Mr. Summers a successful man who has mislead the villagers in this town by making them follow the lottery though he has no kids. The villagers therefore, feel so sorry for him because he has no children, much as he is engaged in civil activities like square dances and the Halloween program (Jackson 1948), and has a coal business. They …show more content…
Summers is an innovative man who wants to give the old things a new face and progress forward. He wants to do away with the shabby old black box, which the villagers decline. People are not ready to question the lottery since it is tradition from the generations of the forefathers. (Jackson 1948). He is definitely a man who is conscious of efficiency in everything he wants to engage in. He wants a change, and wants to bring progress. He argues that the same things were done when the population of the town was very small cannot be the very things done now. As people become many, and efficient way of carrying out the lottery has to be embraced. No wonder, when he talks to Mr.
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Graves and Martins, interminably, he seems a very proper man (Jackson 1988).
The villagers have put much trust and faith in Mr. Summers such that nobody has doubts about him. He ensures that the lottery takes place since he determines the person who will be murdered. This is an inhumanity act even though people view it as part of their tradition. As a good leader he is supposed to change the lottery but instead he ends up executing the lottery thereby killing innocent people. He should advocate for change in the lottery as one way of supporting human life and doing away with evil traditions and cultures. People would like change of the lottery but they cannot question it since they got no power to question the lottery (Oppenheimer
Character: Mr. Summers
Plot: Lottery describes the excited yet nervous mood of around 300 residents at a village in an annual ritual known as “the lottery”.
Setting: A small town in contemporary America which has an annual ritual known as "The Lottery"
Mr. Summers is reflective of the tradition of the people of this American town, who allow the lottery, and the significance it has in their lives. Mr. Summers a successful man who has mislead the villagers in this town by making them follow the lottery though he has no kids. The villagers therefore, feel so sorry for him because he has no children, much as he is engaged in civil activities like square dances and the Halloween program (Jackson 1948), and has a coal business. They …show more content…
Summers is an innovative man who wants to give the old things a new face and progress forward. He wants to do away with the shabby old black box, which the villagers decline. People are not ready to question the lottery since it is tradition from the generations of the forefathers. (Jackson 1948). He is definitely a man who is conscious of efficiency in everything he wants to engage in. He wants a change, and wants to bring progress. He argues that the same things were done when the population of the town was very small cannot be the very things done now. As people become many, and efficient way of carrying out the lottery has to be embraced. No wonder, when he talks to Mr.
HE LOTTERY3
Graves and Martins, interminably, he seems a very proper man (Jackson 1988).
The villagers have put much trust and faith in Mr. Summers such that nobody has doubts about him. He ensures that the lottery takes place since he determines the person who will be murdered. This is an inhumanity act even though people view it as part of their tradition. As a good leader he is supposed to change the lottery but instead he ends up executing the lottery thereby killing innocent people. He should advocate for change in the lottery as one way of supporting human life and doing away with evil traditions and cultures. People would like change of the lottery but they cannot question it since they got no power to question the lottery (Oppenheimer