HotSpots! 3B

The first hotspot that had caught my attention while I was reading “The Lottery” was on page 59 when they are gossiping about other towns thinking depleting the idea of having a lottery. “Pack of crazy fools, listening to the young folks, nothing’s good enough for them. Next think you know, you’ll be wanting to go back to living in caves” said by Old Man Warner. Everyone around him also agreed that the lottery is a tradition that they have been doing for hundreds of years. They have done it so many times, it has become a part of the towns peoples lives. They say that there is 300 people currently living in their town, and the numbers keep growing. The idea of them taking the lives of the towns people, week by week, is to keep the numbers down. After reading that quote from Old Man Warner, it makes me think that they believe by keeping the lottery, it is making their town more evolved. They said those who want to take away the lottery will eventually go back to the old ways of not working and living in caves. I almost think that living in caves back then is a more civilized way of living then killing off their towns people. Every town has traditions that people look forward to, but for this town all people do is keep their fingers crossed it will be their neighbor or husband to die before they do. 


My 2nd hotspot that stuck out to me the most after reading the “Lottery” was the very last line on page 62. “It isn’t fair, it isn’t right,” stated by Mrs. Hutchinson. This caught my attention the most because the statement she said before she was killed by stones and pebbles by her fellow friends was completely against what she was saying from the beginning.


The 3rd hotspot that caught my attention was found on page 101. Eventually he realizes that he is telling tales that are not even on the lines of being true. He admits that he has told the same story a million times, but more on the lines of the truth. 


The 4th hotspot that I had found was found on page 96. This is where he explains that in any war or situation, it is difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. He tells us that you want to look, then look away but your mind wants to know what really happens, so you take another look. While you take those looks away, you are missing important information. Without every detail in such a tragic accident, it is easy to add in parts that never really occurred.