Tradition

Latoysha S. White
Traditions in Society
Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” reveals images to aid the reader in understanding society, traditions, and blind obedience of a small village town. The story stresses the importance of questioning what is put in front of a person as opposed to what a person contemplates in their mind. As civilized, ethical, and dignified human begins we have the right to criticize the traditions in society because we are the society. Looking at society from our own experiences and pass judgments, there is a point where a line must be drawn and wasting of human life is that line. This tale of a brutal and heinous stoning of an innocent and unlucky woman shows how some values are wrong in one society and to another society right.
We learn immediately that the townspeople feel totally justified to participating in the day’s events. The young kids gathered in the town square. Laughing, playing, and having fun, the kids gathered stones and put ...