In the short story The Lottery, Shirley Jackson writes about a tradition that people who live in the village believe in. The tradition is called the Lottery. It consist of every family who live in the village has to attend. If they don't attend someone from their family has to pick their ticket out of the black box for them. Who ever get a certain ticket will get stoned.
Argumentative Response: Are there any American traditions that share similarities with the lottery tradition in the village? In this story the tradition the villagers believed in is very hurtful. When I heard about this story The Lottery I thought it was about money. I was a little excited to see what it was about, but no one could have told me it wasn't about money. Since it wasn't about money I would think it would be something good with the title lottery but it wasn't. It was about people who lived in villages gathering their family picking tickets out a black box and getting stoned. They even had young children stoning they parents. In America it's a lot of different traditions. Some traditions relate to different religions. I'm going to speak about one tradition within a religion. The Muslim religion but not all Muslims believe in this tradition just some. I was told by different Muslims how this tradition is accepted in their family. The tradition that some Muslims believe in is having more then one wife. What I was told by different Muslims is that if they husband want more then one wife the first wife have to agree. I have an example on how I know that some Muslims agree with each other on having more then one wife but it hurts the wife to share her husband. One day I was at work talking to a female friend who was a Muslim and shared her husband. She wasn't the first wife she was the second. We were standing outside my job and she lived across the street from my job. We were talking and she saw her husband leaving the house with bags. She said and was very upset and loud, it is my week he suppose to stay with me. I looked at her with sorrow and said wow. I said to myself I couldn't do nothing like that. She have a good heart. The similarity of the tradition the Muslims share with the Lottery tradition is that they are consisted, they go thru with it no matter if it hurts someone. They also gather their family. Narrative Response: When have you made an important choice to break away or not break away from a strong cultural tradition you shared with a family, friend, or culture? I shared a good relationship with my kids father but sorrowfully to say after I had my three children he became abusive and over protective. I loved him so much I couldn't understand why he would hit me and be so over protective. I never cheated on him. I was always nice caring and shared everything with him. He knew everything about me. We had our own place. He would be the one to cheat on me. Girls would call his phone, but it was one girl particularly who would some how call at least once a month. I guess she was his side girl and knew about me. One day my children father female cousin came over from florida and stayed with us for a while. She told me alot of things about my childrens father parents. How his father use to hit on his mother a lot. So we both knew where he got that bad behavior. She wasn't the only person that told me that. His brother wife told me that also. I had to leave that relationship. I took my kids and went back home with my grandparents. I would say it was a cultural tradition because his parents showed him that bad behavior and he repeated what his father did to his mother to me.
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Julia Thornton
10/23/2017 10:51:28 am
I can see how you relate the Muslim tradition of having more than one wife, which is hurtful, to the lottery which is also hurtful to the towns villagers. I also agree with you to leave your children's father. Someone who is abusive and cheats is not worth anyone's time.
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Damian Puglia
10/26/2017 09:18:02 am
I agree with your decision to leave no one deserves to be treated that way.
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