4-The+Lottery

The Lottery

Costa's Levels of Inquiry
Melanie Arthur's Questions:
 * 1) In the story, how does one know they have "won the lottery"?
 * 2) Analyze why Mrs. Hutchinson starts to defend herself when she learns that she will be stoned.
 * 3) Imagine how you would feel as a child growing up in a small town that used the lottery system.

Claiborne Earles' questions:
 * 1) Why do some towns start the lottery earlier?
 * 2) Do you think Mr. Summer's class position have anything to do with him being the one to oversee the lottery?
 * 3) Do you think the town will suffer the loss of Tessie and realize what they are doing and why?

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Andrew Ferralli,s ?'s 1.What is the color of the box? 2. Who "won" the lottery? 3.Why do you think the author wrote this story?

Character tracker Bobby Martin is the leader in a bad way of the kids. He is also very out going. He was the first one to stuff stones in his pocket. Mr.summers is very involved/ supportive of the lottery. He carried the box into the town square. He likes to be a leader/ incharge and have an important role. He suggested to get a new box. The children and town folks mind's are corrupted for doing this. They all do this every year and are excitted about it. Old man warner is the only one with the mind/ nerve to accually speack up and say something. He tries to tell everyone this is crazy and to stop them.

by Claiborne
 * Extender **

__The Lottery__ by Shirley Jackson is similar to the fictional short story by Jorge Luis Borges called __The Babylon Lottery__. In __The Babylon Lottery__, it tells how the people of Babylon had once had a monetary lottery which then morphed into a lottery that included severe punishments along with large amounts of revenue. The lottery changed from being voluntary to being mandatory.

The movie __The Stoning of Soraya M.__ is about a mother telling how her daughter was killed. Her daughter's husband told lies to the village that she was unfaithful to him. He did this so that she could be stoned and he would then be allowed to marry another woman. This shows how harsh punishments are given to innocent people when problems can be solved another way. []

__The Hunger Games__ by Suzanne Collins is very similar to __The Lottery__ because the names are drawn from a container and those people have a future that almost guarantees certain death. Maybe the the little town in The Lottery uses the lottery to keep the population under control just like the Capitol uses the Hunger Games.

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Stoning occurs in some of the Bible stories. Most of the stories have to do with a woman accused of adultery. God says that if anyone did commit this sin that the evil has to be removed by stoning. I wonder if the towns people in The Lottery could have had a religious purpose to their actions?