Answer:
The beginning of “The Lottery” doesn’t seem very odd. The people seem relatively normal, the adults are working, yet there is a sense of uneasiness. It soon becomes clear that the “lottery” that keeps getting mentioned is what causes this sense of unease. Yet the reader is still unaware of what part of this lottery is making them uncomfortable, and it starts to become clear that winning the lottery is not a good thing. Slowly the reader puts together various pieces of the story, and it becomes clear what will happen: the winner of the lottery is stoned to death, supposedly to ensure a good harvest. The story becomes darker and darker as one realizes that no one really even knows the origin of the ritual and why it cannot be done away with. It becomes clear that “The Lottery” is a prime example of a dystopia, because propaganda is used to control the citizens, which leads to the freedom of information being heavily restricted. This happens to the point where citizens from different towns rarely speak with one another. One must question why this information is restricted (or rather, has it simply been forgotten?) how it came to be this way, and why the citizens don’t work to change it.
Explanation:
The correct answer is D. Be extra careful to look for biases.
News from online sources such as blogs and message boards are inevitably biased since they reflect the individual authors' opinions, interpretations and points of view. Since opinions are subjective and vary from person to person, they are full of biases. Therefore, it would be wiser to obtain news from less biased sources such as national newspapers or news channels that report news as it is instead of reporting it in a way that reflects a journalists or news reporter's point of view.
Answer:
Two factors that combine to form an author's purpose for writing a text is audience and message.
Explanation:
<u>Answer:</u>
The short story has a beautiful theme.
<u>Explanation:</u>
“THE WILD DOG OF CAUCOMGOMOC” by “Charles Boardman Hawes” is a short story in which a dog loses his owner and as a result of this he doesn’t interact with any other human. He stopped making any friendly relationship with humans. However, this behaviour of dog changed when he supports the town in a way no one expected.
Thus, the beautiful theme of the story is that meaningful friendships can come from places from where someone is not expecting.