Conflict

               Conflict is a hard word to understand because many people don’t understand why some persons love to be in conflict. In many public places such a beach, park, restaurants, train, we find the kind of person who loves conflict.  I do not understand why, but some people love to fight for no reason at all. In many cases we are around people that seek out conflict where there is not any and this causes problem for those who suddenly find themselves in a conflict. Sometimes we can avoid this conflict without fighting, and I have a good example to avoid conflict.  

               One year ago I was in a noisy restaurant with some friends we were eating, talking and enjoying the food. Beside us there was a person eating alone. Suddenly he stud up and walked toward us and he told us “shut up” in a vulgar form. He began to tell us that we were talking about him. He looked so angry and he wanted to fight.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

“The Lottery” takes place on a warm June 27 in a town where about three hundred people were and describes an annual event in the town, a lottery. A tradition that is apparently widespread among surrounding villages as well. Children arrive in the town early and began to play." Some of the boys collect stone. They have a black box to begin the lottery. When it is time for the lottery, the box is removed and taken to the place where the lottery is being held. The names of the families are called one at a time to come up and take a piece of paper. When all of the people had come up and taken a folded piece of paper, everyone reads what is written on the piece they selected, but only one piece of paper had something written on it. It is that one person has to die. Tessie Hutchinson receives a slip with a black mark on it; it means that she won the lottery. The villagers then stone her to death as a ritual sacrifices.

The part I Liked:                                                                                                                        

The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions: most of the were quiet, wetting their lips, and not looking around. I like this part because for they seem that it nothing especial going to pass.

The part I found confused: 

Almos all the story is a little confused                                                                                                        

 The children had stones already. And someone gave little Davy Hutchinson few pebbles.  Tessie Hutchinson was in the center of a cleared space by now, and she held her hands out desperately as the villagers moved in on her. Old man Warner was saying, “Come on, come on, everyone.” Steve Adams was in the front of the crowd of villagers, with Mrs. Graves beside him. “It isn’t fair, it isn’t right,” Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.

Questions:

1.     Why it is called “lottery?

2.     Why the children have to be there and make the same as adult?

3.     The story is based on true story?

4.     Why did not Mr. Hutchinson change with his wife?

“A Chip of Glass Ruby”

“A Chip of Glass Ruby,” tell the story about an East Indian woman living in South Africa who is arrested for protesting the discriminatory laws and for her political activity, and the impact of her arrest on her family.  She always wanted to help other people, but her husband does not understand that. He always was wondering why his wife could not be like the others wives or women. But she was different and that make her too especial. Finally her husband noticed that and he knew that he had a very good wife.

SUNDAY IN THE PARK

     The story told that was a woman with her son and her husband in the park enjoying the beautiful afternoon. Her son Larry was playing with the sand and other fat boy was playin with the sand too. Suddenly the fat boy trew sand to Larry. Larry's mother saw and said to him that he must not trow sand to the people. She looked for his parents because the fat boy had a bad attitude. She saw a big man, he was reading a comic book and he was his father. His father just said to his fat boy that he was in a public place and he could throw whatever he wanted. Her husband Morton saw the bad attitude of the man and he seldon lost  his temper but he was angry. He traid control himself  and traid to talk with the man but he was so rude and he wanted to fight. Morton traid to avoid the fight but he wanted it. Morton took out the Larry and they went out of the playground before the problem got wrost. On the way to home She felt upset and she was angry with her husband because he wanted to hit Larry because he was crying. Larry did not want to stop crying, he wanted to come back to the park.