After Reading [The Lottery]

The Lottery, By Shirley Jackson, 1948

Rate: 8/10

 When I first read the title, I thought it would be a lucky draw. But when I read the ending, I couldn't shut up in shock. 


 Not only in Korea but also in any country, society began from an agricultural society and has the custom of holding rituals that whishing rain and festivals for a good harvest. Traditions and customs are hard to change. But the wrong tradition and wrong perception must change. The village in "Lottery" has caused innocent victims every year under the name of 'tradition'. But no one rebelled against this custom, and silently sympathized with it. In this part, I think I felt a great fear of crowd psychology and the seriousness of the uncritical attitude. Is it right to sacrifice one person for everyone's happiness? The main character of this lottery can be me or my family, but after reading the story, I think I was really surprised by the madness hidden under people's expressions. 

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After Reading [Eveline]

Eveline, By James Joyce, 1904 Rate : 9/10  Eveline showed a clear ending, unlike other storys by James Joyce that I've read.  Eveline  could not escape from paralysis easily, and in the end she chose to remain in Ireland.   Looking at her story, I came up with the word "gaslighting". It means dominating others' mind by  gradually  manipulating her/his thought worse off. It seems that the act of gaslighting still existed before hundred years too. If she knew what gaslighting was, and if she had recognized that she was being gaslighted, she would have escaped without being trapped by words that constrain her, such as "Derevaun Seraun!", which means "The end of pleasure is pain."      A person cannot live without change. We can develop and live normally when we constantly challenge new things in search of happiness and move forward. However, Eveline is bound by the historical and historical environment, unable to change and stagnate in a paralyzed lif
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After reading [Araby]

Araby , by James Joyce, 1914 Rate : 9/10   Everyone must have had a crush at least once. We would have thought that we can do anything for our love, and we would have tried to get closer somehow. The story seemed to illustrate such subtle feelings through the child's perspective. It was so easy to sympathize, and through lots of devices in the story, I was able to immerse myself in it even more deeply, although story is short.  Specifically, I really liked the part which the protagonist felt disappointed when he went the dark Bazzar, where he'd been looking forward to. I came up with the new word  in Korean  "hyeonta(현타)", I thought it is the  word matched  really  well with the protagonist's disappointment realized through the light-out Araby, which he really expected to go. I felt that KMLA and Araby are similar, because I really expected and looked forward to go it, but after admission, I realized the harsh reality in here. So I could sympathized in story very
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After Reading [The Sisters]

The sisters, by James Joyce, 1904 Rate : 7/10  ' The Sisters' contains many themes, but in fact, it seems difficult to understand exactly what it is about. The story told by the perspective of a child and deals with the death of a priest named Father Fylnn.    What reason was Father Flynn paralyzed and suffered mental distress? I don't know exactly, but I thought that some oppression and pain of Catholicism, which was prevalent in Irish society at the time, and the writer's gaze on it might have been seen as his "paralysis". His guilt and pain in the corrupt act of trading a priest, depicted as a word 'simony', led to paralysis and would have kept him in an unstable state of mind until he passed away. So the child would feel a sense of freedom after his death, even he relied on him, and I thought it could be understood as freedom for corruption and oppression.   It was difficult to understand because it ended in open endings and there were so many diff
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