Group “B” should answer TWO of the following:
Q1: Besides the fact that someone is killed in each story,
what makes them uncanny or disturbing? How can stories without
monsters, ghosts, or aliens be a “horror” story? OR, is this the same kind of
story even without those elements?
Q2: Why does Conradin make the ferret his deity, and why
does he give it such a strange, imposing name? Why, for example, didn’t he make
the hen his god?
Q3: In “The Lottery,” we get the sense that most people
don’t know why the lottery exists or exactly where it came from. There’s even a
sense of impatience about it: “Well now…guess we better get started, get this
over with, so’s we can go back to work” (176). Do we understand why they keep
doing it, especially when a few other towns have stopped altogether? Why is it
so important?
Q4: How can we read both stories (or one particular story)
as a satire of early 20th century society? What ideas or values are
they satirizing, and how are we supposed to see this through the events and
characters of the stories?
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