The Lottery

We learnt about the ugly nature of men in the story"The Lottery".The two undesirable characteristics displayed in the story were the selfishness ,ruthlessnessand supertition in men.In the story,the lottery is performed to pick out a "winner" to be stoned be stoned at in the belief of a better harvest.I think that picking out someone to be stoned at for a better harvest is indeed very selfish and cruel, furthermore,the belief is based on the supertition of men ,which may not be true.It is very relevant to our society as the supertition of men could be reflected in the society.One example is,people praying to all sorts of god for 4D numbers on the belief that god would without a doubt answer their prayers and turn them into overnight millionaires.Another example,is a popular Chinese supertition, that is staying on the 4th storey would bring bad luck as the number 4 in Cantonese is "sei" which sounds like the word "death".Some people also do not like the number 13 as they think that it brings bad luck.As for selfishness,it could be easily be seen in the MRT.Once an elderly enters the MRT train,very few people if not none,would give up the seat to them.This is the selfishness of man.