Superior's Event: Dr. Seuss Bingo

Their children were busy gathering the stones, stuffing their pockets and making piles of stones. The people waited for the lottery to be finished quickly, so that they could get home to eat lunch and go back to work. The writer implies that the lottery was a casual village event like “the square dances, the teen club, the Halloween program” at the end of which the winner will get a prize. This quote from “The Lottery” is very significant for better understanding of the people’s attitude towards the coming event. Finding out the truth about the prize would make the reader’s blood run cold because it is

When he actually wins bingo the story goes from metaphor to reality. As he steps on stage the men on stage berate him with racial slurs, as does the crowd. They call him ?boy,? and say that ?he?s one of the chosen people.? People yell, ?Are you all-reet,? and the announcer says ?So you decided to come off that mountain to the U.S.? All of this confuses the man because he is so consumed with the desire to win the money that he can not understand they are making fun of him. He cautiously grins, knowing that they are probably making fun of him, but he is consumed with his own anxiety.

The lesson in this story hits pretty hard. The Lottery's relationship to real life is that sometimes we are presented with traditions that have been adhered to for as long as anyone can remember, and we forget the reason these customs were created in the first place. (As Old Man Warner said, "There's always been a lottery.") The problem is that circumstances can change and make these traditions outdated, useless, and even harmful. Think of the women trying to gain suffrage for their gender. If they had just let the tradition of only males voting continue, where would they lie in today's society? We therefore must re-evaluate our traditions, questioning their original purpose; otherwise we're just letting ourselves be

Whether you have a loved one at this elderly community living center or you are just looking for a fun, relaxed evening, a GrandeVille Bingo Night is an experience that should not be missed. You’ll be able to meet some of GrandeVille’s kind caregivers and other members of staff, and you’ll also get to enjoy some

In both The Lottery and Hunger Games, they have done the event in the story for many years. In The Hunger Games, the citizens are a part of the tradition, but not everyone wants to be a part. Some citizens and most of the government enjoys watching the game. People in The Lottery are more relaxed, calm, and happy about the event. They don’t worry much about it. But once they declare the winner, the person who won wants to redo the whole drawing, The person does not want to play. But the other people are just as relaxed, calm, and happy after the event as they were before the event. After the person gets rocks tossed at them, the other people continue with their day like if nothing

Bingo: The Winning Musical is an Off-Broadway musical written by Michael Heitzman and Ilene Reid, and the score was written by David Holcenberg. The musical was written in 2005 and first produced in 2006. Their work had won them numerous awards together including Grammys for Best Song (HeitzmanReid). The genre of this

Why follow blindly when the end result is know to be quite terrible. Mostly because it’s ironic to do so. From the very beginning of the Lottery by Shirley Jackson it is ominous in nature. This might be a reaching statement for some, with the quaint description of the town of 300 people and the summer ambient of gathering joyous school children (Jackson 278). Why is it though, that the whole town decides to gather? It’s appears like a scene right from the twilight zone, colors far to vibrant, people much too comfortable to be drawn away from work and home life. There is something inhuman about the scene and it’s unfolding.

The author of “The Lottery,” Shirley Jackson, creates suspense and tension to convey dramatic irony. In a person’s life, a lottery, or raffle, is thought of something fair, because sometimes, you win prizes or money. This would be the raffle that you do NOT want to win. In Jackson’s short story, it is not about what the townspeople win, but it is about what is lost. I would have to say that the theme of this story would be “Not all traditions are always good.”

In the short story “ The Lottery “ by Shirley Jackson the characters have a different feeling about the lottery. When Mrs. Hutchinson came late, she seemed like a cheerful lady that wouldn’t do any harm. When Jackson wrote the story, it seemed that she wanted something in the story that gives a “ big punch “ when the readers read. There's really no problem when the person's attitude changes to nice-crazy. Mrs Delacroix changes at the very end. She seemed very friendly, but when they decided or who the sacrifice is, she took a huge rock. Everyone's feelings change when they are included in something that they may have been forced on. Never let people say what they want to you, fight back with all you got and people will support you. Its interesting

I played bingo, volleyball and I won a manicure for the activate event. I played bingo, the two-game hosts with Mrs. Bonnie. The hosts told me and players that show the numbers-letters of a combination. Bonnie heard the hosts and interpreted me with American Sign Language carefully for the bingo game. I spelled "BINGO" with my fingers when I raised my hand up with a wave at the hosts. They examined my two game cards because of that matched same numbers correct! I got to win the manicure from the bingo game. I leave the cafe where I play the game to going the outside. I played volleyball with the black female student for fun. I liked to play the volleyball, but I was not a good player. I gave another volleyball to the small

People should be happy with either winning or loosing. In my view, if I get a copy of questions before the quiz, I will definitely use that to win as the awarded money is going for charity. According to ethics, people should do things that will make them happy. So I will be very happy to give the money to the charity people with my

They all stand in the town square and pull pieces of paper out of a box. There is one paper that has a black spot on it and Bill Hutchinson, a character in the story, picks this one. His family, the Hutchinsons must put all their paper in another container including the marked one. Now they draw again and Tessie picks out the marked one, and has won. Well at least that is what you would think. But no, instead she most definitely loses. It ends up with her being tied up in the centre of town and all the people of the town throwing stones at her. "It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her. This is the ending line as Tessie Hutchinson is set on, having lost the lottery. All this just shows how normal seeming people can in fact be inhumane. The way Tessie is treated is a prime example of man’s inhumanity to man. It also goes along with how Piggy is treated in Lord of the Flies, and Solomon Northup in 12 Years a Slave. Another theme in the lottery is that of tradition. Here is what Old Man Warner, a man steeped in tradition, says about the young people of the town trying to abolish the lottery "Pack of crazy fools, Listening to the young folks, nothing's good enough for them. Next thing you know, they'll be wanting to go back to living in caves, nobody work any more, live hat way for a while. Used to be a saying about

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“Bingo is beginning in five minutes” I heard over the loudspeaker. I had been living in this retirement home for 5 years and never missed a single bingo game. I grabbed my walker and headed for the bingo room….just another Saturday. When I arrived, I saw all the regulars sit down for their weekly game of bingo. It was all fun and games until I won. Bertha, who hadn’t lost a game in 3 weeks flipped out. “I NEEDED ONE MORE NUMBER” she shouted. The whole bingo room exploded like Pearl Harbor. People started flipping tables and rioting. Eventually the whole place joined in. The people in the lunchroom started a food fight, the people bathing started splashing all over the place, and the people playing cards starting throwing them everywhere. The

You may be wondering, "How is a game of bingo supposed to keep me calm?"