The Lottery Argumentative Essay

Making a difference and creating a chance to save somebody and anybody from harm is something that our society should be aware of without having to be reminded. For example; in The Lottery, Mrs.Hutchinson had been chosen to “win” the “lottery” when in reality she was the one chosen to receive a painful and depressing death. Nobody, not even her own husband nor child stood up to society to prevent her from being “stoned to death,” as stated “It isn’t fair, this isn’t right...Mrs.Hutchinson screamed” (The Lottery, Shirley Jackson Paragraph 79) this quote shows that Mrs.Hutchinson knew or realized that what the “lottery” actually was wasn’t right and even though she pleaded and screamed still, nobody chose to help her due to tradition. But if it were to be someone else and Mrs.Hutchinson wasn’t the victim and was the bystander, she wouldn’t have realized that what was happening wasn’t right or she wouldn’t have wanted to or chosen to help the victim that took her place. To add on to, another point to prove is the fact that most of the society was aware of what the “lottery” was too, they knew that it wasn’t anything special to win and it was something that no one actually wanted to win, and here’s why;

Taught me also to split my conscience from my acts and Christianity from my southern tradition.” (Killers of the Dream, Eugenia Collier Paragraph 8) This quote proves that the narrator does in fact blame her parents and does not blame herself when she should have felt guilty because even though her parents told her these things she knew what was right and what was wrong from the beginning and still decided to follow after her parents, she could have made a difference, it would have been a small difference but at least it was