The_Lottery

The Lottery The damaging effects of blind adherence and religious hypocrisy are just two of the many reoccurring themes mentioned throughout the following literary pieces: “The Lottery,” “On The Road,” “A Good Man Is Hard To Find,” “Young Goodman Brown,” and “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings.” This following paper will support its thesis through the interpretations and perspectives of, “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, shows the damaging effects of blind adherence. In the infamous short story, an unexamined ritual has been taking place longer than living has been alive. This ritual is the stoning of one randomly selected person from town on the 27th of June. This small town ritual, lottery, man, town, story, sacrifice, old, need, june, good, god, following, effects, damaging, blind, been, adherence, young, year, wings, warner, very, unexamined, understand, two, times, throughout, through, though, thesis, themes, taking, support, stoning, soon