Traditions in A Moment Before the Gun Went Off and The Lottery :: Shirley Jackson Lottery

In the stories A Moment before The Gun Went clear up and The Lottery, there is the situation in which a group of pot give ear to traditions very blindly. In twain stories the traditions are so dug into the peoples centering of life that questioning them is considered sacrilege within these communities. Furthermore, the members of the community no longstanding even remember why the traditions were set up in the clenched fist place. They follow the traditions simply because their predecessors followed the traditions. A nonher similarity between the communities in both stories is, even though these traditions are firmly entrenched in these communities, they are rapidly losing there grip in other communities. This detail is not only mentioned in both stories, but looked down upon by communities that quiesce follow the traditions.         In the trading floor The Lottery, the tradition is to hold a drawing off on a specific summer day, but instea d of loving a cash prize or some other ethical thing, the winner gets to be stoned to death by the members of the community. The character that is mentioned intimately in this story is one by the name of Mrs. Hutchinson. Mrs. Hutchinson is a inclined mother and housewife. She is the one who eventually gets singled out to win the lottery. So it is Mrs. Hutchinson who is impact the most brutally by the lottery. However the other people of the colonization are affected differently by the lottery. It is very un apparent that the people of the small town kill people for the sake of killing people. More likely there is a deeper reason. One possibility is that the people of this village of this village are looking for a scapegoat. A person to take the point for mistakes and sins of others, so one person dies for a community and saves the community from any(prenominal) sins that had been committed.         The society can be affected in umpteen sl ipway by the lottery. Other neighbor societies have been affected by the lottery, many have abandoned the tradition of the lottery. Even in the community where the story takes place many of the rituals that go along with the lottery are fade into the past to be forgotten forever. An example of this would be the chant that before went with the