Week 5 question 3

After reading Amy Wilson's under the Guise of Tradition: "The Lottery" and female circumcision, I was able to better understand Shirly Jackson's The Lottery. Wilson explains how in American tradition we celebrate things like fireworks on the Fourth of July and we hunt for easter eggs on Easter. Why? Because it's just what we have done for so many years it's an American tradition. Just like in her story she exlains how in Egypt years back they would circumcise young woman between the ages of seven and thirteen because it was a ritual they practiced. When I first read Jackson's The Lottery, I thought it was obsured and morally wrong to stone someone simply because after drawing a lottery they just happened to pick the slip of paper with an ex marked on it. This was done because just like in Wilson's story it was a ritual they practiced every year just how we celebrate the Fourth of July and Easter although our ritual so to say isn't morally wrong. theirs were just what their culture practiced and Jackson's point was that some people practice certain rituals whether it's considered wrong or right to others.