《摸彩》读后感

the feeling after reading of《the lottery》

It’s based on dystopias. It narrated the story about the people of a small town held an aniversal activity of lottery , and the person who got the lottery would be hit to death by stones for the sake of havrest of the following year.

The lottery was conducted-by Mr. Summers whose name means year or the passage of time.He gathered the people together and held the lottery ceremony which cost one human being' life to keep the stupid saying:lottery in June, corn be heavy soon. The group of people like Mr Summers had controlled not only on the whold process of the lottery but also the economic resources even destinies. The lottery was only a kind of ritual which was used to blind their souls, transfer their dissatisfy about the real life and take out their anger on the much miserier person-the lottery winner. And the name of his assistant Graves meas tomb.It implied the ending of the lottery was the death of somebody.

The old man Mr Warner was the eldest person in the town who was supposed to the wisdom in common sense, instead he was the representive of the most fatuous and cruel human beings. He has been taking part in killing people to death for more than seventy times. The luckiness of he could escape from each life-risking in the lottery has been transformed into huge zealous passion to keep this convention and defend anyone who even thought about abandoning this ritual in head.

The lottery tradition has been kept year by year, there was a human being was hit to death year by year, until this year when the narrator reported to us , we still could not see a sign that it would be changed.

So the lottery winner Tessie in this year was just like everyone in the past,she was the victim for others to keep their blind ritual. We don't know why the writer chose Tessie to be the victim. There was no any singal which implies Tessie would be the one who got the lottery. She was like everyone who came for this ceremony as a participant and a vindicator as well.