A Visit To Grandmother 'And The Lottery'

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Our experiences demonstrate how relationships form between people as well how they can be deteriorated easily by a misunderstanding or how they can be dangerous because a person is blindly obedient. The relationships that follow can either better each person involved or inflict emotional damage. A mother and son relationship is very important as a close relationship between them can be very beneficial for both. In the short story A Visit to Grandmother by William Melvin Kelly, a mother son relationship is shown but this is one isn’t very good as it should be. The main character felt unloved by his mother and kept it to himself for thirty years, only to be told the opposite of his thoughts. As the story develops a message can be taken from this …show more content…

Charles felt his mother loved GL more than him and that caused their relationship to become distant until his mother explained the truth to him about how Charles was more independent than GL and how she loves all her children equally, “thirty years too late”. In The Lottery, the villagers have been doing the lottery which is their tradition they have been doing every summer where they murdered a family member or friend who “won” the lottery. Tessie believed it was unfair that she won the lottery and got murdered by the village. From these stories, we learn about the relationship between the characters with their family about how we should never keep our negative feelings to ourselves and assume we know the truth because the truth we might know could be wrong .Blindly following a tradition that you don’t know where it originates from could be dangerous because it may seem harmless at first but it could inflict huge amounts of both physical and emotional pain between the people. The relationships in these short stories defined the characters in them and either made them distant in Charles’ case or in The Lottery’s case where families turned against each other and traditions were more important than morality. Just like their situations helped define Charles and the townspeople, relationships exist to better or harm the people involved in them defining everyone at one point in

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