The Power Of Reading In The Lottery By Frost's The Lottery By Robert Frost

The power of reading may be evident to many people around the world, but to others it may not be realized until that one magnificent work that changes the meaning of literature forever to them. Literature has never been my strong suit, but throughout this course and after many readings, literature began to speak to me. My perception of literature immediately changed after reading the short story The Lottery by Shirley and the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost.

When a small town holds a yearly lottery, one might think it is a time for a joyous celebration, but that tradition goes sour in the matter of minutes. The town lottery is a drawing to sacrifice one of their citizens; therefore, the reader is left with emotions of disgust and astonishment. Throughout the short story of “The Lottery” it is revealed that it can be categorized as a horror story and a story of surprise.

The element of surprise comes from the aspect that when the term lottery is

And someone gave little Davy Hutchinson few pebbles. 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

The revulsion aspect of the story is not only is a town essentially engulfing one of their members, but also able to effortlessly continue on with their lives after the incident. Poems can be extremely difficult to comprehend and “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost was not an exception. In this poem, it displays how the speaker has come to a fork in a path in the woods. He is unsure which way to go, and wishes he had the option to go both ways. He looks down one path as far as he can but then decides to take the other one because it is not quite as worn. The speaker then reflects on how he wishes he would of taken the other path and how it affected his life.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages