ANTHONY GOODMAN
Is This My Tradition?10/4/2017
American traditions that can relate to the “lottery” is the actual lottery, the ;lottery in America is like the opposite cultural tradition but the same way the tradition is made or how it actually works. The lotter in both the story and in America are traditions where everyone in one day picks a random ticket that will change their life forever but in this case the outcomes of their very different in the story and in our American tradition. In the story the lottery the outcome is horrible by someone being stoned to death which is obviously an awful outcome, but in our American culture we have a good outcome where you become rich.Even though our lottery is “good” I believe that the lottery in our culture I believe it can also destroy people's lives like in the story, I believe this because money changes people and can make them lose their morals and destroy their life as easily as a person with a stone can ruin someone's life. In the end these two traditions are negative positions to be in even though you become rich from our tradition. A time in my life when I decided to break away from a cultural tradition is when I had work the day my family was having our annual family reunion. It was the week of the family reunion and I had completely forgotten that it was that weekend, and I told my work that I was available that day. The whole day I was questioning if I should skip work for the family reunion or disappoint my parents and most my family and tell them I wouldn't be able to see them for another year. I knew I couldn't disappoint my family that traveled from around the country just to see our whole family together. I decided to not show up to work to see my family and not break our family tradition because it is morally right in my eyes to put family over work or money. In the end of this situation I was pretty confident that I made the right choice because I got to see all the people I love in my family once again and did not really have any repercussions from my work for skipping that day, I believe that the tradition my family made is stronger and worth dealing with any problem to see them.
2 Comments
Damian Puglia
10/5/2017 11:39:51 am
I also have a family reunion every year,and I had work the one year and couldn't go to it because it was a very important day at work
Reply
Jacqueline
10/5/2017 11:49:26 am
I think your points for the lottery similarities to the story. I also think you made the right decision to go to your family reunion.
Reply
Leave a Reply.Anthony GoodmanThis blog will be about my English Comp assignments and my life Archives
November 2017
Categories
All
|