How Winning the Lottery Leads to Cannibalism Max slowly slumps into his dining room chair as he lays his weekly roll of scratch off tickets onto the dining table. He reaches for the coin that always lays in the middle of the table, and begins to scratch away at the tickets. With each losing ticket, Max’s smile begins to drop and his legs start to bounce. The idea of losing, once again, angers him. In his head he vows to never buy anymore scratch off tickets, even though he knows he will go right back to the same gas station next Thursday to repeat the process of buying and losing all over again. Max slides one of the last tickets towards himself; slowly revealing each symbol. The coin slowly tumbles from his hand and rolls off the table as …show more content…
Are you ready for your trip?” the pilot asks as he shakes Max’s hand. “I am as ready as I will ever be,” Max replied. The pilot moves his head to look behind Max as he asks, “Where is your plus one?” “She will not be joining us for the trip,” Max nonchalantly replied. “Okay, well we can go ahead and head out then. It is almost time to leave,” states the pilot. The pilot strolls to the front of the plane and begins to prepare the plane for flight, while Max takes one of the seats in the cabin after putting his luggage away. Max places a mask over his head as he tries to settle in for the multiple hour long journey, and the pilot relays to him that they will be taking off. Max’s mind becomes fuzzy, and his eyes begin to droop as he slowly falls asleep. Max is suddenly awoken by the frantic yelling of the pilot and the unsteady shaking of the plane. He removes the mask to see the pilot in a panic as the plane appears to be nose diving towards a body of water. “This plane is going down, and you need to brace yourself for a hard landing!” exclaimed the …show more content…
Neither of them have had food since the day of the crash because of the pilot’s inability to hunt and Max’s failed attempts at finding food. The pilot’s health has also taken a turn for the worse due to the obvious infection of his wound and how much blood he has been losing. With his deteriorating health, comes a decrease in strength, and Max has certainly taken notice. Max struggles to think about anything that does not pertain to food. He sits and wonders where his next meal will come from, and he cannot help it when his eyes stray to the balled up figure that is the pilot. His mind has been leading him towards this decision for at least a day now, and Max is finding the possibility of an easy kill and a good dinner to be too enticing. He slowly rises from his spot on the ground to walk and stand over the pilot. The pilot slowly opens his eyes to see Max above him with a rock in his hand. “What are you doing with that rock?” questions the pilot as he slowly begins to crawl backwards. “ Please, don’t do this man. I have a family and children, even a grandchild on the way,” begs the
stands up in front of him, Nuke takes this as a challenge and he asks Crash if
Norman begins having the hypothetical conversation with himself as he continues to drive around the lake. He tells the story the way he would tell his father, and Max, and Sally.
At the end, the story flashed back to the real time. Max was trying to lure 1900 out of the ship. Having served as a hospital ship in World War II, the ship was scheduled to be scuttled and sunk far offshore. Max got onto the ship with the recording 1900 made. He played the recording and hoped to attract 1900's attention. When it did, Max tried to convince 1900 to leave the ship. But he failed, the Virginian...
It was boring day on June 27. There was a huge group of people in the village gathered in a square. The people were gathered between the post office and bank. Our town has a lottery that took two hours to start. I was so happy because my school was over for summer. Boys were carrying stones and placed them in one corner of the square. Meanwhile, girls stood aside and looked around places and other kids. I would rather go with my best friends to hangout than playing a lottery game. This game happens every year with a black box. Lottery was conducted as the square dances, the teen club, Halloween program by Mr.Summers. Lottery is basically a tradition for us people in this town. (page 11-12).
When Rikki woke up he ran all around the room before settling down and eating part of a banana. But he knew that if he ate the whole thing it would make him really slow and fat. Then he went to bed with Teddy in his room. In the morning he went down to breakfast on Teddy’s shoulder and had a boiled egg. Then he went to explore the garden where he met a tailorbird
Freire believes that “those who espouse the cause of liberation are themselves surrounded and influenced by the climate which generates the banking concept, and often do not perceive its true significance or its dehumanizing power” (79). Max does not realize the effects of his power, and while trying to build all these clubs up, he suppresses the people who are in them. However, all this begins to change once Max begins to communicate and reflect on what others say to him. When Max is flying his kite, Margaret enters the scene when she lands her toy airplane near Max and Dirk. Margaret then says that Max has been a jerk to her, and then leaves. Prior to this encounter, Max dropped out of school and became a recluse, but after Margaret enlightened him about his behavior, Max became his former self and made a list of people who would be interested in a newly-formed kite club. Margaret was finally able to speak her mind and in doing so, she altered the teacher-student paradigm by having an open discussion with Max, as opposed to being told what to do. This reversal is an enlightening experience for Max because now he realizes that to become a better person, open communication is a necessary construct. From this point forward, Max will begin to reminisce Freire’s idea of an ideal student who switches his position on authority to one of open and free-flowing
Chen explains the realistic matter of flight with consequence. In “A Wall of Fire Rising,” Guy elevates in his balloon, but knowing there is not anywhere to go, he jumps to his death. In doing so, both his wife and son are left standing over Guy’s blood-soaked body in shock over the fact that he is gone and left without them. Guy was ultimately able to escape the horrors of his life, but in doing so he left behind his family to have to find ways to cope and adapt to a life without him.
...e of this fight. James puts his own life in danger by going against Max because he realizes what he stands for, he stands for the common man and fights for all the people suffering in the depression.
“Contact the control tower and request an emergency landing at once, clear the runway of any other planes and get the fire emergency team ready at once! We may not be able to control the plane even if we do get it down.”
Max shouted,“Run, Run Run!” The book Maximum Ride Angel Experiment is written by James Patterson. Maximum Ride Angel Experiment is about a group of six kids who call themselves the flock and the oldest is Max who is fouteen and then its Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel who was six. The six of them are on the run from scientist which the six of them call white-coasts. The reason is that they have special abilities which are that Angel can hear people's thoughts and all of them can fly. This all started when the white-coasts took Angle and it took days to get her back, but they finally did. In doing so they found Jeb who was a father figure to all of them and sent them free when they were kept in School (the place where they lived and where
“Ladies and gentlemen my top priority is to keep you safe, so please if you have this gem give it up,” said The Plane.
In this story when Freak sit on Max’s shoulders and tell the cop that they are Freak the Mighty, he state “Freak is still holding tight to my shoulders and when they ask him for his name, he says, ‘We’re Freak the Mighty, that’s who we are. We’re nine feet tall, in case you haven’t noticed’”(39,40). This also shows that Max and Freak they are friend that why Max’s help Freak by put him on his shoulders to be Freak’s legs. In the story when Max see his dad attack Loretta and he try to stop his dad by tell his dad that he is kills Max’s mother, he
In "The Lottery" Shirley Jackson fills her story with many literary elements to mask the evil. The story demonstrates how it is in human nature to blindly follow traditions. Even if the people have no idea why they follow.
On this leg of their long day, the captain was the flying pilot in control of the aircraft, and the first officer was the non-flying pilot, handling such things as navigation and the radios. After only 14 minutes in the air, 22:54, they received the fi...