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lol1234
lol1234
Student
High School - 9th Grade

What are the consequences of following the crowd as shown in "The Lottery"?

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Posted by lol1234 on Thursday September 24, 2009 at 7:24 PM and tagged with the lottery.

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  1. karenmac
    karenmac Teacher
    Middle School

    Everyone thinks that the lottery is a good thing to win. At the end of the story, the people who win actually befall a trajic fate by the hands of the other townspeople. The people do it because everyone else does. They use their own hands to hurt the people who win. The consequences then would be that they are pressured to do something that is morally worng and no one speaks up. Everyone believes the lottery is a good thing, but the reader sees it is ludacris. The reader has reason, morality, and original thought. The reader is capable of making independent decisions, but the townspeople are not.

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    Posted by karenmac on Tuesday September 29, 2009 at 4:48 PM

  2. obwhite
    obwhite Student
    College - Freshman

    the consequence for following the crowd in "the Lottery" is what it seems to me death by stone. so whoever the winner is then that person would go and get stone, they dont tell us if they do it until the person dies but we know that anyone can die from being stone by a lots of people. No one in the crowd knows why they actually do it but they are scared to change traditions.

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    Posted by obwhite on Saturday October 17, 2009 at 1:45 PM