What idea do the school children most likely
represent?
O Educators fail students down when they do not let
them make their own choices.
The children assembled first, of course. School was
recently over for the summer, and the feeling of liberty
sat uneasily on most of them; they tended to gather
together quietly for a while before they broke into
boisterous play, and their talk was still of the classroom
and the teacher, of books and reprimands. Bobby Martin
had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the
other boys soon followed his example, selecting the
smoothest and roundest stones; Bobby and Harry Jones
and Dickie Delacroix-the villagers pronounced this
name "Dellacroy”—eventually made a great pile of stones
in one corner of the square and guarded it against the
raids of the other boys.
- "The Lottery,
Shirley Jackson
Most people make the right decisions when
presented with a choice.
O People can be brought up thinking terrible things
are normal.
O Everyone goes through changes in his or her life.