I think yes. 50% of Americans admit to being superstitious
The village lottery culminates in a violent murder each year, a bizarre ritual that suggests how dangerous tradition can be when people follow it blindly. Before we know what kind of lottery they’re conducting, the villagers and their preparations seem harmless, even quaint: they’ve appointed a rather pathetic man to lead the lottery, and children run about gathering stones in the town square. Everyone is seems preoccupied with a funny-looking black box, and the lottery consists of little more than handmade slips of paper. Tradition is endemic to small towns, a way to link families and generations. Jackson, however, pokes holes in the reverence that people have for tradition. She writes that the villagers don’t really know much about the lottery’s origin but try to preserve the tradition nevertheless.
In "Gumption", the author specifies on the aspects of creation whereas "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" revolves around fantasy, a garden pathway story.
<u>Explanation:</u>
Both the structures are descriptive, "Gumption" is more of a story where the characters are given pragmatic voices and places and images that carry meaning, in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" there is lot of literary allusions and dark themes.
In "Gumption", the author specifies on the aspects of creation whereas "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" revolves around fantasy, a garden pathway story.
The character Walter Mitty became a well known character in the American fiction, as he has wonderfully expressed the economical ground of the times and lightly ironical as well as in fantasy.
And the characters in Gumption are given voices and a space for their own to have a descriptive and realism, portraying the reality of the world.
Continuous data is the answer
College tuition has almost doubled in the last twenty: therefore, more than half of all recent college graduates are currently unemployed or in jobs that do not require a college degree
