Blindly Following Tradition
A theme I noticed in
The Lottery is the danger of blindly
following tradition. They are completely blind toward the tradition because
they have yet to realize the inhumanity and brutality of "the
lottery". Warner, the oldest person in the town, claims that without the
lottery there would be no order. That alone shows how little they actually know
of what they're doing. You don't need an iron fist, or in this case a lottery,
to keep people from getting "out of line".
I believe that The Lottery relates to Touching Spirit Bear and The
Hunger Games. The short story relates to Touching
Spirit Bear because Cole Mathews, the main character, blindly takes part
in an old Alaskan Indian tradition called Circle Justice simply to avoid going
to jail. The Lottery relates to The Hunger Games because they both blindly
follow a tradition in which they draw pieces of paper and people are brutally
murdered for no reason.
The first paragraph was well written, but in the second paragraph the connection to Touching Spirit Bear could be explained more.
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