Key Points in the Graphic Novel on La Loterie

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On the night of June 26, Zhou and Harry met in a shop to prepare for the annual lottery tradition the next day. An ancient box was laid out. Hundreds of small blank pieces of paper were poured out. Zhou chose only a piece of paper and used a pencil to drain it in a solid circle. Then he combined it with the rest of the paper in an ancient box. On the morning of June 27, in a village, about 300 of our villagers gathered for the annual raffle ceremony. With that, the village had only one person, the event started 10 a.m. and finished in two hours. Then the villagers were able to go home to eat. Before the tradition, children from many families gathered a large pile of stones during the "Zhou Summer" ceremony, which runs all the activities in the village, including the annual lottery tradition. To start the raffle, each family had to send a representative to be the head of the family, but if the head of the family could not come, the next position, like a wife, would be the raffle. In the end, there would be only one unfortunate family, and they would have to draw another raffle to find the "unlucky man" of the family. The answer was that Bill Hutchinson's family, one of the families began to feel it. The unfairness of this tradition, "Tessie Hutchinson," she tried to protest for justice against everyone, but in the end her claim was not supported by everyone else, because everyone in the village believed in this tradition wholeheartedly, and the disorder of the tradition was not questioned, until finally she was punished by tradition by stoning herself to death.

💢 The main point of interest in the story is...

1. Punishment of the innocent (scapegoat)

Tessie, who fell victim to tradition, simply because of the drawing of lots linked to the belief, it is said that if sacrificed something will cause something good to happen, but who is sacrificed back is a pure one, may reflect the oppression of the innocent to preserve tradition (power?)

2. Society adheres too much to tradition.

- Follow tradition without considering correctness in morality. The penalty is that everyone in the village brings a stone to the chosen person to death. Not omitting even the child or child of the chosen one. Seeing the cruelty of the person whose beliefs are dominated and reflecting the society that accepts and views these actions as normal or traditional without questioning (or do they not dare / cannot question?)

And besides, the origin of the sentence "Lottery In June, Corn Be Heavy Soon" ⁉️

This sentence came out of social media at a time when it was commented or called a protest. It was a sentence that was often used to tell the situation that it was similar to the lottery and to demand legal justice, unfair traditional practices or systems, such as a group of people protesting a witch hunt, where someone accused of being a witch hunt would be murdered. Personally, a friend abroad explained the sentence and said that he himself used it in a classroom activity that protested unreasonable beliefs and led to cruel actions against innocent people.

Lottery In June, Corn Be Heavy Soon - Labels In June. Corn Will Be Heavy Soon. This quote reveals a hidden belief and evokes a lottery ritual that if villagers sacrifice / kill someone in June, after that they will have a good harvest or economy, and their food needs will be fulfilled in the following weeks and months.

- It was prepared, a short film was made in 1969, "The lottry short film."

- The lotto word of The Lotto song - P9d in the line "we can't find peace by winning the lotto."

- The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Short Clip | Summary, Themes & Analysis in Teaching Materials study.com

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