Evil Project
Matt Kaminski
The Basics
To be evil, is to do something that harms someone else or something else mentally or physically for your entertainment or because it makes you happier or to feel better about yourself. I think these stories represent evil.
"The Lottery"
In "The Lottery", all the people in the town have a lottery where the winner gets stoned to death by the rest of the town's people.I think this is trying to teach us that human values back then were about sacrifice for certain things and people thought it was the right thing to do. This is like the author's style because there's a violent twist at the end.
"The Possibility of Evil"
In this story, one of Miss Strangeworth's notes go to a person in the town knowing it is from her. Then, that person at the end destroys her old important roses. This is like Jackson's style because the ending was unexpected and evil. This is trying to teach us that it is hard to not want to get revenge on somebody that has done something wrong to you.
"What a Thought"
"What a Thought" is about a typical wife who kills her husband for no reason by smashing an ashtray over his head. This is a clear example of Jackson's style because it's morbid and twisted. Everything seems fine and then the wife starts thinking about ways to kill her husband. It's teaching us that we can, for no reason, want to or kill somebody if theres something wrong with us mentally.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865586702/19-year-old-Dairy-Queen-manager-does-good-deed-for-blind-man.html?pg=all
A Dairy Queen manager saw a blind man drop a $20 dollar bill after serving him. An elderly woman picked it up and put it in her pocketbook. He asked her to give it back to the man or he wouldn't serve her. She got really mad and left. Then, he gave the blind man a $20 dollar bill out of his own pocket. This is the opposite of evil because a man did something really nice even knowing he wouldn't have gained anything out of it.