Writing Log 3B

The Lottery


‘While reading Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, a few different points really stood out to me. The first one is on page 55 where it says “The children assembled first, of course. School was recently over for the summer, and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them.” It then goes on to say that a few of the kids had already gotten their stones ready. This stuck out to me because it is saying that even the young children knew what was going on with this. It seems to me that the village is so messed up in the heads that they have already morphed the children’s minds into thinking that it is okay to do.

Another hotspot that stuck out to me is that none of them would move away from this crazy “lottery”. They have been doing this event for so long that they are just used to it. They could easily pack up and move away from all of this madness, but they don’t seem to do it. I feel as if people are so afraid of change that they don’t want to lose this ritual.


How to Tell a True War Story


The essay “How to Tell a True War Story” was very intense and it really makes me think about how things were back at the old wars. One of the things that were said was kind of humorous to me but I’m sure it is true. This was on page 96 where is stated “Often the crazy stuff is true and the normal stuff isn’t, because the normal stuff is necessary to make you believe the truly incredible craziness.” This is saying to me that there is nothing that happened in war that was like a normal situation back home.

Another spot in this story had kind of the same meaning to me, but it also stuck out/ to me. This point is on page 98 where Sanders says “you won’t believe” and the narrator just says that he knows. Sanders then says that “You won’t, and you know why? Because it happened. Because every word is absolutely dead-on true.” He then goes on to say that he sounded like he didn’t care if the narrator believed him or not, but in reality he did care