The Lottery: An Honorable Sacrifice?

In 1948, "New Yorker" magazine published a short story titled "The Lottery" written by Shelly Jackson. The story starts on June 27, 10 am on a sunny day. Sunny and sunny can show a happy and cheerful story, but as the story goes on, a happy ending can not be found. "Lottery" is a story of horrible death that a small agricultural society is considered a necessary sacrifice for the benefit of their crops. Tessy Hutchinson was stoned to death without regretting as she was the "winner" of the town's lottery.

In "Lottery" citizens of the village had to sacrifice their lives because of the village tradition. Among the "people leaving Omelas", Omeras is the only one who has to sacrifice the theme "lottery" and "people who left Omerus" is only for children. The only person in "Out of Omilas" is Omilas and a child. There are many personal roles in "Lottery", such as Bobby · Martin, Mr. Somers, Mr. Graves, Mrs. Delacroix, Bill · Hutchinson, Tessy. Both children and Tessy are sacrificed. Set "The person leaving O'Melas is a utopian city called Omeras." "Lottery" is installed in the village. The plot of the plot "People leaving Omelas" is a problematic child omegus that was sacrificed for the happiness of others.

Some readings on "lottery" highlight the importance of ceremonial murder. In a society that has to make good progress, this village village has chosen to participate in this habit to refuse to sacrifice the pagan gods concept with a favorable harvest. "This was an explanation" June lottery, maize will be very heavy in the near future "(215). Old man Warner absurd the idea of ​​giving up the lottery, said that it would return to the age of non-civilization: "Next, they want to return to life in the cave" (215). This is another sarcastic statement as the tradition of the lottery is obviously obsolete and meaningless, another scientific statement; progress in science and technology - even purely rational - confirms that the execution of the lottery does not affect the profit in any way It seems to be. Likewise, Jackson abandoned the lottery tradition and stressed the necessity of not being in harmony with the present age.