“Bill Hutchinson was standing quiet, staring down at the paper in his hand. Suddenly, Tessie Hutchinson shouted to Mr. Summers, ‘You didn’t give him time enough to take any paper he wanted. I saw you. It wasn’t fair!’” In this moment, the lottery is fully exposed as an unfortunate event, but it is not until the end that the reader will discover just how disastrous the day of June 27th actually is. “Tessie Hutchinson was in the center of a cleared space by now, and she held her hands out desperately as the villagers moved in on her.
Radicals believe that capitalist profit from consumers, who are being exploited. In relation to the bill, radicals would say it’s the capitalist who are destroying the environment and disregarding human presence all in the name of profits. Radicals would approve of the bill as it would put an end to exploitation. But it does not completely comply with their views. A radical solution doe not exist in a capitalist society, but can only work if capitalism no longer existed.
This emphasises their selfishness towards their community. Mr Birling is supposedly the most selfish character in this play. He wants to protect himself and his family. He believes that socialist ideas that stress the importance of the community is ‘nonsense’ and that ‘a man has to make his own way.’ He wants to protect Birling and Co. He cannot see that he did anything wrong when he fired Eva smith- he was just looking after his business interests.
“[Tom Robinson’s] left arm was fully twelve inches shorter than his right… I could see it was no use to him” (186). This proves to the reader how prevalent discrimination is at this point in time. When Tom was accused, it was like shooting a mockingbird because Tom had done nothing wrong. Boo Radley is accused, through town gossip and rumours of trying to kill his family, “Mrs.Radley ran out screaming into the street that Arthur was killing them all...” (11). He was also accused of having to go to an asylum, because he was crazy, however, “no Radley was going to an asylum” (11).
The Lottery really starts to uncover itself when everyone has already chosen a slip and they realize that the Hutchinson family has the black slip. Tessie Hutchinson became hysterical, screaming “ you didn’t give him enough time to take any paper he wanted I saw you. It wasn’t fair.” Of course Tessie is upset because her family chose the black slip. Jackson begins to show us how all of a sudden someone can begin to become rebellious. We wonder if Tessie would have spoken up if it was another family was chosen.
This is how Emerson sees consistency; he is very much against it and looks down upon those who do not change their minds. Honesty has a lot to do with the consistency part of Emerson’s piece. Many people may be afraid to be inconsistent because they fear others will fear they are being dishonest. They have an opinion on something one day, and then the next it is changed. Some can see this as being dishonest and many people in society fear this.
Hutchinson says to her husband, “Get up there, Bill”(391). Once all of the families had drawn, and the lottery “winners” were chosen, the atmosphere of support completely changes. Mrs. Hutchinson claims that Mr. Hutchinson was rushed, and that it was not fair. She then tries to make her daughters, who are now married and who enter the lottery with their husbands, draw with the Hutchinson family. Instead of having close family ties as before, Mrs. Hutchinson now tries to better her odds by endangering her own daughters.
Our god is angered greatly every time he sees a kid with swag. Our god views Davis as the eighth deadly sin. Every year because there are so many of these kids, our god punishes them with bad sports teams and no school spirit. Davis sports teams are punished by losing many games, having winless seasons, and always lose to their rivals Ike. God’s wrath has sent their spirit to the depths
200). This is taking place when Mr. Lindner has come to bribe the family to leave Clybourne Park after Walter has decided to accept the money. Even though Lena convinces Walter not to take the bribe, it still shows the heavy effect that racial prejudice can have on people. It shows how racial prejudice can lead to fighting within the family and emotional distress or degrading effects. The quote also illustrates how racial prejudice oppresses people into staying in their current social status.
The immigrant identity is clearly portrayed as inviting exploitation and prohibiting the family from succeeding, but the family fails to realize that the American identity is similarly problematic and offers just as little opportunity for freedom and success, but for different reasons. In short, the poison in the air is the effect of American capitalism, which implicitly pits the poor against each other in the search for work and the need to maintain that work regardless of how denigrating or dangerous it is. However, the family does not realize this at first, and fails to recognize that buying into the idea that hard work alone will bring human rights and success is just as naive and makes them just as exploitable as relying upon the goodwill of the wedding guests to help pay for the cost. When Jurgis is still naively invested in this notion, he asks “do you want me to believe that with these arms […] people will ever let me starve?” (Sinclair 23-24). Jurgis believes that his physical ability for labor will be enough to ensure his and his family's success, but this is just as foolhardy as the belief that holding on to their Lithuanian wedding tradition could shield the family from the ravages of American capitalism.