Thursday, October 28, 2010

The Lottery

Pre-reading: Justice is when everything is fair and right.
One tradition my family has is, every christmas, when we're opening presents, we always go in a certain order. We go youngest to oldest.

Plot/Reaction: The town is obviously very old school. They still believe in giving sacrifices in hopes for good crops. For whatever reason, they think killing people for good crops is okay. Mrs. Hutchinson was chosen to be stoned to death so the town would get good crops that year.

Questions: Why does the town think that killing someone will give them good crops?
Why does it take Mrs. Hutchinson's life being in danger to realize that killing people for good crops isn't right?

Quote: "The children had stones already."
"Someone gave little Davey Hutchinson a few pebbles."

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