Directed Writing: Report Water issues that affected villagers health in the little village Written By: Jason Spencer Water is one of human beings most important basic needs. Human can survive without food for couples of days but somehow going without water‚ human will not survive. Using safe‚ clean‚ water is a basic human right. Mother Nature gifts us free water but selfish human beings keeps polluting the water with actions such as chemical leaks‚ littering into water‚ disposing industrial waste
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of Blindly Following Tradition The village lottery culminates in a violent murder each year‚ a bizarre ritual that suggests how dangerous tradition can be when people follow it blindly. Before we know what kind of lottery they’re conducting‚ the villagers and their preparations seem harmless‚ even quaint: they’ve appointed a rather pathetic man to lead the lottery‚ and
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Achebe’s “Dead Men’s Path” Michael Obi the newly appointed headmaster of the Ndume School has different religious and cultural beliefs then that of the current and past villagers. There is a path that leads through the school yard that has been there for many years and is part of the villagers culture and religion. The villagers are said to believ that this path is very sacred to them and has been throughout all the years. The path leads from the village shrine to the people of the village sacred
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amount of villagers‚” I said “You must not pilfer my sons‚ nor will you take my fellow people‚” Father said. “Well‚ you must fore-stall me and my people then‚” I said Father. He tried one last time to cease our decision but eventually was too exasperated even to try to stop me and the villagers from our onset voyage after our
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of Evil”‚ etc. all written by Shirley Jackson herself. One story in particular that uses a sense of ritualistic nature is the short story “The Lottery” also written by Shirley Jackson. This story is about a village that is subject to around 300 villagers that have a certain tradition which is a special type of “lottery” that happens every year; the “winner” is to be stoned to death by their fellow neighbours. Jackson also stresses the importance of human nature‚ which is that humans are conditioned
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“Dead Men’s Path” by Chinua Achebe‚ tradition plays a part. In “The Lottery”‚ the villagers gather together once a year and meet in the square for a drawing to determine that year’s sacrifice. In “Dead Men’s Path” the story is about a pathway to a burial site that passes through the school grounds‚ which was closed off by Mr. Obi‚ the headmaster of the school who had a different religious belief than the villagers. “The Lottery” and “Dead Man’s Path” have a similarity in that they both have
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“Dead Man’s Path‚” Chinua Achebe uses the path as a symbol of us a spiritual connection between the villagers and their ancestors. The Villagers use the path that goes through the schoolyard to get to the graves of their ancestors. The headmaster‚ Mr. Obi‚ tries to shut down the path because he believes the villagers should not be using the path since it runs directly through the schoolyard. The villagers take a stand and use the path anyways at night and take the time to destroy Mr. Obi’s wife’s flowerbeds
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of Galilee? Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem‚ where David was?” So was a division among the people because of Him. (John 41-44‚ NKJV). The opening scripture summarizes the villagers’ attitude toward Esteban in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World. He appears to be what they initially believe is a washed up whale‚ but none of them were prepared for what he would later become as more of his attributes
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would gather to conduct their annual lottery. The Lottery has a long history in this and surrounding towns. This Lottery is not just any Lottery is something that people would call a sacrifice. This event were ran by Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves villagers would pick a slip of paper from an object called the black box that decide their fate the person with the paper that had the black dot on the paper would be executed as an sacrifice for the towns gain. In The Lottery through depictions of the
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describes the pervasive poverty of the place “forgotten by God and man” throughout this enthralling novel “I’m not scared”. The villagers do not only fall victim to poverty‚ but also to the subsequent fears with which they are afflicted after committing the crime – kidnapping a boy of a wealthy family and holding him to ransom. Fears are correspondingly intertwined with the villagers; they play a tremendous role in the adults’ actions and motivations and become one of the primary themes of this novel.
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