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02-14-2010, 08:31 PM
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Re: ONE OF THE MOST BANNED STORIES EVER..
What's so bad about it that makes it "One of the most banned stories ever"? To be honest it was a waste of time reading that. Although it wasn't a bad story, improper title mislead me. |
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02-24-2010, 07:13 PM
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Re: ONE OF THE MOST BANNED STORIES EVER..
Well, I'm sorry it is not purely gore shoved into your face.. I didn't realize that intelligent thinking was not allowed in this website. It was not banned only because of the horrific actual story, but it was also banned for the hidden underlying anti-tradition and the need for change in our society. I didn't say it was banned in OUR lifetime. This story was written in 1948. It is anti-conformist and rebellious by showing the exact opposite which it promotes. Here is a review of "The Lottery" that I found: "Originally published in The New Yorker in 1948, and a a staple of High School English classes ever since, it elicited some of the most spirited response in the history of that dowdy weekly. The story is a stunning indictment of something but is sufficiently ambiguous that many different individuals and groups were able to take personal offense at its implications. It would seem to me though, that there is a pretty conventional way of reading it; one that both touches upon a basic human truth and offers fairly little offense to anyone. Take it at relative face value and the Lottery represents any human institution which is allowed to continue unchallenged and unconsidered until it becomes a destructive, rather than a constructive, force in men's lives.. After all, in the story, the reasons for holding the Lottery are long forgotten, other than the platitudinous "Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon". And the rituals connected to it, other than the making of participant lists, the use of the old ballot box and the swearing in, have mostly fallen by the wayside. All that really remains is a rigid adherence to a hoary tradition. Now folks can, of course, freight it with specific signifigances--read the whole thing as an attack on capitalism (see Dave Sandberg's review below ) or religion or small town conformity or agrarian culture or any of a number of different things. But it seems to me that the most straightforward reading allows it to impact on all of those things. Simply put, the fact that something has been done a certain way for a really long time does not necessarily justify its continuance. If this powerfully disturbing story seems like too heavy a cudgel to wield to make such a self evident, unnuanced point, let's not underestimate how difficult it is to teach people anything. After all, Plato has maintained the title of world's greatest philosopher for a few thousand years now on the basis of "Know thyself". So, why shouldn't Shirley grab a spot in the limelight for herself with a story that admonishes us to examine our civic rituals, especially since she couched her admonition in a great American gothic horror tale, which still retains its visceral power to shock us." |
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02-24-2010, 08:11 PM
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 My Rank: GUNNERY SERGEANT Poster Rank:593 Male Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,570 Mentioned: 5 Post(s) Quoted: 73 Post(s)
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Re: ONE OF THE MOST BANNED STORIES EVER..
 The comment in conjunction with the poster's avatar had me spitting out my nonexistent coffee.Sorry, Aria, I'm sure it's a great story, but I have a heavy load pushing against my sphincter, hence I have not the patience to read it now. I'm not sure this forum is the best place for stories given how many illiterates count themselves as members here. |
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02-24-2010, 08:51 PM
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 So Fucking Banned Poster Rank:1025 Female Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 666 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 0 Post(s)
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Re: ONE OF THE MOST BANNED STORIES EVER..
I don't understand the "MOST BANNED STORIES EVER" part either. If it was first published in 1948 and has been "a staple of High School English classes ever since" then where and by who was it banned, let alone "most banned"? I don't get it. |
