16. Presantation - The Lottery

We presented "the Lottery" on 5 April at the VERY morning:D It was good i guess- the audience and Sonja tried very hard though..=)) But Sonja thanks a lot for your useful feedback which are;

Positive points

• Friendly, enthusiastic, good audience interaction
• Relevant comparison to Hanife which elicited audience participation
  
• Good audience questions
• Good thematic analysis

Points to improve

• What about a thesis?
  
• The summary should be interactive
• Would have been nice to define Gothic and point out some themes in our story
• A bit more sociohistoric context would have been helpful: how was "The lottery" received? What motivated Jackson to write it?
  
• Perhaps a separate slide to develop the ironies - there were many, as you mentioned

Some major points about the text;

1. IRONY:

• The day of the lottery was a sunny day but the action itself was depressing.

2. The black wooden box represents the old traditions that the villagers dont want to change.

3. The black dot represnets the theme of "scapegoatism"

4. THEMES:

• violence and cruelty
• custom and tradition
• victimization
• gender roles