The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

The lottery focused on a variety of themes including the dark side of human nature, the subjugation of woman, the danger of ritualized behavior, and the potential for cruelty when the individual submits to the tyranny of their congregation. The story is about a satanic event that people from a small village annually offered. The game consisted in families draw slips of paper from a ballot box until housewife Tessie Hutchinson receives a slip with a black mark on it. She was stoned to death by members of her village despite her protest about the unfairness of the drawing as the ritual dictates. The setting of the story is in an apparently civilized and peaceful society. Horrifying acts of violence can take place anywhere and they can be committed by the most ordinary people. The author suggested the psychology behind mass cruelty by a community whose citizens refuse to stand as individuals.

The Storm by Kate Chopin

The storm is a story that describe how human regardless of sex can be drive by their passion and eroticism. Calixta committed adultery with Alcee while her husband Bobinot and her son Bibi where shopping at Friedheirmer’s store and they get stop by the storm. This act of infidelity between Calixta and Alcee occurs during the storm that symbolize the catalyst of the literally piece. Also, there is a relation between human behavior and nature. The author meticulously uses the female character to illustrate the chauvinism of the epoch. This story was written during the Hispanic-American war. The author wanted to show that women like men are drive by their emotions and motivations. She is expressing the opposite side of the stereotypes: that males are allowed to commit adultery without being judge while adultery women are terrible censured. The storm is an indispensable element is this act of infidelity. The storm gives Calixta and Alcee the opportunity to mate while Bobinot and his son Bibi were wating for the storm to stop to get back home. When, the storm stopped they went back home and Calixta was waiting happily ever after as if nothing happened. Calixta never feel remorse or regret for her actions. She continued her life normal as men do while their cheating. This piece of literature was censured when it was publish because the author describe scene so detailed that was actually pornography for people of that period of time.

On Sharing a Husband By Ho Xuan Hu'o'ng

The author of this poem is actually the second wife or concubine of a governor of a province of Vietnam. In this poem, she expressed the miseries of being a second wife. She has to share sex and love with another woman. She was basically his maid, he come to have a good time a leave. She was relegated to be attached to him without a right to have a life for her. She was submitted to his mercy and his desire. She wanted a normal life, but at the same time she was a need to feel love. She used as object in which he satisfied his desire regardless of her feelings. Being a second wife have the disadvantage that you get what other people does not want. She in this case take a position of dishonor because all privilege and honor was for his wife. I believe that he only want her as a lover, but he did not show respect to her. Cultural differences make me think this way may be in Vietnam this is a normal things. Feelings are universal and no matter how the cultures dictates moral and values. Woman must get our place and show respect for ourself because no one would respect us, if we do not do it first. Even if we love somebody, we do not have to put our dignity over what we feel. Sharing a pattern always would have a negative connotation. At the end, everyone would suffer.

How to watch a brother die by Michael Lassell

This poem develops the topic of homosexually and the factors are associated with it. In this case, the author is implies that he has not good relation with his brother because he is homosexual. The author suffered from homophobia to a point that he avoid his brother just because he choose a different path for his life. Michael have a standard family with wife a kids while his brother has a lover that is taking care of him in the hospital. My question is: It is not that love? rewardless of standards in society. He realized that he must go where his brother is dying to spend last days of his brother’s life. The author stayed at his brother side wating to be forgiven. When he knew his brother's lover, he understood that love not only is part of opposite sex relation, but can be expressed by people of the same sex. People should love other for what they are, not for what we want them to be. The author should never have destroy the feelings between them. It is ignorance not allowed or accepted people that have sexual preferences with people of their same sex.

A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor

On the other hand, Flannery O’Connor wrote a short story related to the fundaments of the Christian faith. She explain how good and evil are present throughout the human soul. She used two main characters that symbolized the two aspect of the human behavior the good and the bad. She implies that the judge in Christianity contribute to evils, since salvation is possible, punishment is no longer a restraint, but is accepted as a consequences for action. The grandmother represents the old Christian faith. She talks about in moral values and how the world have turned trouble place hard to live. The Misfit played a role of offender confessing his sin to his minister. O’Connor expressed the reality that must people profess his faith during difficult times. The author suggested that the differences between good and evil can only be reached at the end of life in Christianity.

The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale Heart is a short story written in first person narrative. The main character of this story is the narrator who suffers from paranoiac hallucinations caused by the guilty from the murdering of an old man. The story begins when the narrator who is taking care of an old man feel irrational fear of the weird clouded eye. He gets so annoyed by the eye of that man that he decided to kill the old man. The narrator was so meticulous about murdering his victim that took eight nights to find the perfect moment to strike. He spent one hour every night just to open the door of the old man’s room. The old man walked up because of the sound of the narrator watches, so he decided to kill the old man in his own mattress. The narrator cut the body in pieces and hidden them under the floorboards. He cleaned the crime scene to cover any evidence while a neighbor who heard noise called the police. The narrator was confident about the fact that the police will not find any evidence until he began to ear the sound of heartbeat. He gets so paranoid because of the constant beating of the heart that he losses control and plead guilty of the crime. He showed the police the body hidden under the floorboards. Edgar Allan Poe is this story play with human mental process, consciousness, remorse feelings and obsessive behavior of the main character the killer. The author is more concerned with what is going on in one people mind.

Homage to my hips by Lucille Clifton

Lucille Clifton in this poem express that her hips are an important part of her body. She is proud of her hips and she uses it as a tool to enchanted men figures. She is so confident to the way her hips are form that she is writing a poem as homage to it. She is describing her hips as if they were not part of her body. She is adopting an observer point of view to describe her hips. She said that her hips need space; they cannot fit in little space. She admires how her hips are structures, so feel really good about it.