You're ugly, too

In this story, Zoe is going on many dates. These dates are not going well, either. One date even ended with a man picking up a spider. Also, another one telling inappropriate, sexual jokes. The irony in this story is that normally it is the girl falling head over heels for the man and not vice versa. When she was asked if she was seeing anyone, she said she is seeing her house. This is a sure sign that her dates are not going very well when she resorts to saying no guy is working out so I'm keeping myself busy.

The Ironic Drunkard

The Drunkard is a very ironic story. THe boy sets out with a mission that he is not going to let his father get drunk again and save him from drinking. However, the biggest irony is that he ends up getting drunk himself. He is most likely going to end up drinking like his father now in the future.  He didnt want to end up like his father but the reality and iroiny is that he did. A humorous part is that the mom says to him, "It was God did it, you were his guardian angel." She was happy that the dad wasn't drunk, and didn't care that the son was.

Foreshadowing

Now I know this story, The Lottery, is focusing more on point of view, but there is a lot of foreshadowing going on early in the story. The story starts with the children all gathering rocks. We later find out that these rocks will be used to stone someone. Also, the person who was stoned arrived late to the tradition. Normally when people are late to things, something bad happens. A word that was used in this story a lot was the word nervous. The story was overall nonchalant and impartial. But most of the characters seemed nervous, and now we know why.

The Lottery

Every year, this town lines up and draws pieces of paper to see who wins the lottery. In this town, however, the lottery is not a good thing to win. The winner of it gets to be stoned. Not a good prize, at all. Everyone in the story seems so nonchalant about this terrible tradition. This story is seen through the point of view of the unlucky winner of the lottery that year. This puts sort of a tense view on the story as the grim ending starts to come into view. This particular story reminded me of a movie called The Island. When the people on this island won the lottery, they got to leave and go to a dream vacation island. However, the reality is that they were clones and winning the lottery meant that the originial version of them needed their organs for their own health. These stories are starting to make winning the lottery not sound so awesome anymore.