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.