{"id":132275,"date":"2023-08-20T11:36:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T11:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/discussion-board-9-the-lottery-freshman-comp-ii-enc-valencia-college\/"},"modified":"2023-08-20T11:36:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T11:36:37","slug":"discussion-board-9-the-lottery-freshman-comp-ii-enc-valencia-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/discussion-board-9-the-lottery-freshman-comp-ii-enc-valencia-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion board #9: the lottery | Freshman Comp II ENC | Valencia College"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After reading the &#8220;The Lottery,&#8221; answer the following questions. Use complete sentences and specific evidence from the text to support your claims.\u00a0<strong>Make sure you also indicate the page number when you are pulling evidence from the story.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. What was your initial gut reaction to the ending of \u201cThe Lottery\u201d? Looking back over the first three paragraphs of the story, locate any\u00a0two examples\u00a0which may provide a sense of foreshadowing. How can some of these examples be now seen in a new light?<\/p>\n<p>2. Looking at the story, almost two paragraphs are devoted to the description of the black box. What do you make of the black box? Provide any two (of the many) descriptions of the box. What could this box potentially symbolize?<\/p>\n<p>3. Old Man Warner mentions that there \u201cused to be an old saying about \u2018Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.'&#8221; Taking into consideration the purpose of the lottery, what do you make of this quote?<\/p>\n<p>4. Are there any cultural or historical events that Jackson might be commenting on here? Is this JUST a story about this particular time and place, or is she trying to say something important about human nature? Why has Jackson chosen common people for her characters?<\/p>\n<p>5. After viewing the three clips, why do you think the themes presented in \u201cThe Lottery\u201d still resonate today?<\/p>\n<p>In order to receive full credit for this post you must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Post\u00a0your response to all questions.\u00a0<strong>Make sure you also indicate the page number when you are pulling evidence from the story.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 After reading the &#8220;The Lottery,&#8221; answer the following questions. Use complete sentences and specific evidence from the text to support your claims.\u00a0Make sure you also indicate the page number when you are pulling evidence from the story. 1. What was your initial gut reaction to the ending of \u201cThe Lottery\u201d? Looking back over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}