Traditions In "A Moment Before The Gun Went Off" And "The Lottery"
In the stories "A Moment before The Gun Went Off" and "The
Lottery," there is the situation in which a group of people cling to
traditions very blindly. In both stories the traditions are so dug into the
people's way of life that questioning them is considered sacrilege within
these communities. Furthermore, the members of the community no longer even
remember why the traditions were set up in the fist place. They follow the
traditions simply because their predecessors followed the traditions.
Another similarity between the communities in both stories is, even though
thes ....
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