Examples Of Injustice In The Lottery, By Shirley Jackson

Using the information that I have gathered from literacy I’ve come to the realization that injustices are life changing events that can shift your life dramatically or can either have a smaller effect. The short story, “The Lottery”, by Shirley Jackson, the short story Lamb to the Slaughter, by Roald Dahl, the characters face injustices that clearly changed their way of life. In “The Lottery” people in society draw names as a sacrifice to grow better crops because of a traditional belief. In “Lamb to the Slaughter”, the character Mary faces many injustices of not having a husband and having to take care of her unborn child. People often are put in a situation that makes their life unfair and sometimes unbearable, these situations are dealt

A controversial injustice in modern day society is gender inequality. An example of gender inequality is women getting paid less than men of equal value jobs. Out of 34 countries in the OECD, Canada had the 7th highest gender wage gap in 2014. As a result, this is an injustice to women because they put in the same amount of work and some could say effort, but the outcome of the money proportion is significantly different. Another injustice that is plaguing society is racism. For example, in America, as early as preschool black students are punished more frequently, and more harshly, for misbehaving than the other students. The disproportionate punishment of black students is unjust because they are treated worse than other people, therefore it is unequal. I also believe that socioeconomic status is an injustice in modern day society that not many people recognize. For instance, in many societies how status is gained is by whoever has the most money, so the homeless generally get treated poorly. In behalf of the homeless, this is an injustice because they get treated unfairly compared to the rest of society. To conclude, I believe that there are still many injustices occurring in modern day society such as, gender inequality, racism, and socioeconomic status. These injustices are faced by groups of people, but I have faced some of these injustices

I have been affected from injustices personally, racism is one of the injustices that I have faced. For example, I most commonly have faced racism in school and sometime in public. I have been called an immigrant and other racist terms. As a result, I feel that this is an injustice towards me because people assume things about me and also start to make jokes about my way of life. I have also encountered a minor injustice when I enter seven eleven after school. For instance, when I enter the store after school, I am told to take off my backpack and put it to the side or I am instructed to wait outside so, they can supervise everyone once at a time. This is a injustice to not only me, but all other teens that go to seven eleven after school. This is unjust because the store worker assume that I and other teenagers are going to steal. Other age group people that enter the store are allowed to go in with no restrictions which is unfair. I have also faced injustices from my parents at times.. An example of this is when my parents are wrong about a topic and I prove them wrong with straight facts from the internet but, I still get in trouble for doing absolutely nothing wrong. This would be an injustice towards me because I was just correcting my parents about a topic that they inaccurately discussed, and I still somehow get in trouble for trying to help them out.