Traditions In "A Moment Before The Gun Went Off" And "The Lottery"
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In the stories "A Moment before The Gun Went Off" and "The
Lottery," there is the situation in which a group of people cling to
traditions very blindly. In both stories the traditions are so dug into the
people's way of life that questioning them is considered sacrilege within
these communities. F ....
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.... be stoned to death by the members of the
community. The character that is mentioned most in this story is one by the
name of Mrs. Hutchinson. Mrs. Hutchinson is a devoted mother and housewife.
She is the one who eventually gets singled out to win the lottery. So it is
Mrs. Hutchinson who is impacted the most brutally by the lottery. However
the other people of the village are affected differently by the lottery. It
is very unlikely that the people of the village kill people for the sake of
kill ....
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