Texas V. Johnson, 'Would You Wish, And The Lottery'

“We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.” What does this quote have anything to do with our first unit in english class? Some of the passages: Texas v Johnson, What of this goldfish, would you wish, and The Lottery. These passages imply why people should accept each other and what they believe in. Texas v Johnson was a supreme court case majority ruling written by Justice William Brennan. The main idea of the passage was, to inform everyone about what happened in the court case, which was when Gregory Lee Johnson burned an American Flag at the Republican National Convention in the year 1984. He thought he was simply protesting, however Texas’s law bans being able to do that. He was arrested

Was a passage about a boy named Yoni, who wanted to make a documentary of him going up to strangers and asking them what they would wish for if they had a magic goldfish that could grant three wishes. Lets just say Yoni ended up at a man named Sergi Goralick’s house in Tel Aviv. This man Sergi was not too fond of Yoni’s idea, but Yoni didn’t realize how insane Sergi was. Sergi owns a pet goldfish, so Yoni went over towards the goldfish, then Sergi hits him over the head with a coffee burner. Yoni is laying on the kitchen floor dead, blood all over the place. Now Sergi’s pet goldfish starts talking. Turns out he does in fact own a magic fish that can talk, but Sergi only has one wish left. The goldfish tries to persuade Sergi to use the last wish on making Yoni alive, by rewinding time to before he knocked on Sergi’s door. However, if Sergi uses his last wish, he’ll have nobody to talk to, because he only lives with a talking fish. Sergi does use his last wish on Yoni, and Sergi says his final goodbye to his friend, the goldfish. Where does acceptance fall into this passage? ‘ "To wish my wish," Sergei says. "My last." The fish swishes his fish tail back and forth in the water, the way he does, Sergei knows, when he's truly excited. The goldfish can already taste freedom. Sergei can see it on him. After the last wish, Sergei won't have a choice. He'll have to let the goldfish go. His magic goldfish. His friend.’ (lines 158-163) Sergi is

Hutchinson. Death by stones isn’t the way most people would like to die, but in this story Mrs. Hutchinson didn’t get to much of a choice. The Lottery is exactly what it sounds like. A random drawing from a box, with one big winner. Although being a winner isn’t a great thing this time around. I’m sure you can picture all of the arguing and excuses everyone has when they draw the “winning” slip, because I don’t think people like giving up their life for their small village’s superstitions. ‘Tessie Hutchinson was in the center of a cleared space by now, and she held her hands out desperately as the villagers moved in on her. "It isn't fair," she said. A stone hit her on the side of the head.’ (lines 322-324) Mrs. Hutchinson says “it isn’t fair”, because she’s the one dying, but if it wasn’t her I bet she would say it’s fair. She couldn’t accept her fate. ‘Old Man Warner snorted. "Pack of crazy fools," he said. "Listening to the young folks, nothing's good enough for them. Next thing you know, they'll be wanting to go back to living in caves, nobody work any more, live that way for a while. Used to be a saying about 'Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.' First thing you know, we'd all be eating stewed chickweed and acorns. There's always been a lottery," he added petulantly. "Bad enough to see young Joe Summers up there joking with everybody." "Some places have already quit lotteries," Mrs. Adams said "Nothing but trouble in