<u>Explanation:</u>
Remember, in the story, we are told that Ernesto and his family lived in a small mountain village. In fact, here's a quote from the opening lines of chapter one, Ernesto Galarza recounts,<em> "Unlike people who are born in hospitals, in an ambulance, or in a taxicab, I showed up in an adobe cottage with a thatched roof that stood at one end of the only street of Jalcocotán, which everybody called Jalco for short. </em><em>Like many other small villages</em><em> in the wild.."</em>
His statements show a contrast with the kind of economic system they later discovered in America, because unlike in Mexico where they were mainly involved in farming their life in America involved finding a different source of income.
Catharsis is the cleansing of emotions by art. Catharsis
is a psychological term defined as ‘expressing without filter with ones words’.
This is often used in therapies such as psychoanalysis and client-center. It
basically aims to let the patient talk until all the things he is hiding has
come into consciousness.
I remember that story and I think it was because the things that he was saying was misleading because he said "help NO ONE IS POKING MY EYE" or something like that and the others just ignored that.
Many of the seemingly innocuous details throughout “The Lottery” foreshadow the violent conclusion. In the second paragraph, children put stones in their pockets and make piles of stones in the town square, which seems like innocent play until the stones' true purpose becomes clear at the end of the story.
