The Lottery

The Lottery

Theme Response

5/18/12

Nick Woerishofer

            Do you think that stoning people for no reason is right? Well people in the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, do. They play the lottery in a different way than we do. There a number of themes in this story, I think the main one is defiantly blindly following tradition. In this story their lottery is way different then out lottery. In our lottery if you win you become richer then Richie Rich but in their version it like the complete opposite. If you win you get stoned. The people in that village just follow tradition exactly the way their ancestors did. Nothing changed; they don’t understand that stoning people is wrong; they just do exactly what they were taught to do.

            Now a days we would never do that, because to us it seems savage, but to them it was normal, it is a tradition, and they don’t know any better. To them the odds seriously have to be in their favors, because if they get unlucky it means death. During the lottery everyone must throw a rock. Even Tessie’s best friend threw one, in fact she threw the biggest rock. Another book that has this theme is the Hunger Games because they blindly follow the tradition of killing people for food. In real life if you win the lottery, it's a good thing, but not in this story

DWA--Seasons

Seasons

DWA

5/1/12

Nick Woerishofer

Author’s Note: This is my District Writing Assessment about my favorite seasons, summer and spring. This essay is also for my goals. Enjoy!

            What is your favorite season? I like summer and spring. I like summer for multiple reasons like, my birthday is in the summer and I like warm weather over cold weather. I like spring because everything is changing and it looks cool. These are just some of the reasons why I like these two seasons of the other seasons. I think I always have the most fun during summer. So as you can see there are many reasons why I like summer and spring the best.

            First of all, in summer you don’t have to worry about school or homework. I think during the school year the students have a lot of stress, so I think that is why summer is a favorite season for a lot of people. Another reason would be that is hot outside and I think most people like hot over cold. Summer is always hot and people are out doing stuff outside, and during the school year we don’t have as much time to do what we usually do during the summer.

            Another season I like is spring. I like spring because it is the time when everything is changing, like all the snow is melting and the trees are turning green again and they look cool. Plus I like all the rain that we get during spring. Not a lot of people like spring simply because of all the rain, but for me it is the opposite. I like how vivid everything looks outside. This year we didn’t get too much rain during spring.

            One reason why I don’t like winter is simply because it’s cold outside, I like warm weather over cold weather. I do like playing in the snow with my friends. Another reason why I like summer over winter is because there is school. As I said in the second paragraph, that’s why most kids prefer summer over winter. In the winter when there is a bad storm you have to stay indoors, and kids usually don’t like that over going outside and playing in the snow. I think the one reason why some kids might like winter over summer is because there is Christmas during winter.

            In conclusion, I think that the warmer seasons of the year are better than the colder seasons. That is only my opinion. Some people prefer the colder seasons of the warmer ones. I believe there are more reasons that support the warmer months being more popular than the colder months. I think there is more people who like summer over winter. Go summer!   

The Crack in the Mirror

The Crack in the Mirror 

Short Story

5/11/12

Look at me, I'm hideous. I mean look at this crack it's terrible. I used to be a beautiful work of art, but now I'm just another broken mirror. I used to be perfect not even a scratch on me but now I have this crack and you just store me away? Typical, you buy something nice, ruin and throw it out or store and not even think twice. You used to get up and look at yourself and say "wow it's going to be a great day!" but not anymore because you just had to practice your pitching in the house. What happens now? Do I just stay in here the rest of my life? You can't even spend the money to fix me, that’s just perfect , I sit here and wait till I die. Oh! You came back for me! Yay! So where are you taking me? Are we going back to the room, wait why did you pass it? I don’t understand where else are you going to put me? Why are you opening the front door! What good am I going to do outside? NO! not the garbage!