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NOW READ THE ORIGINAL SHORT STORY BY ANTON P. CHECKHOV & ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT FOLLOW. DO NOT FORGET TO RECORD YOUR SCORE AT THE END OF THE EXERCISE/TEST.

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NOW READ THE ORIGINAL SHORT STORY BY ANTON P. CHECKHOV & ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT FOLLOW. DO NOT FORGET TO RECORD YOUR SCORE AT THE END OF THE EXERCISE/TEST.

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CLICK ON THE LINK TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS.

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CLICK ON THE LINK TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS.

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Here's a fun, free, and awesome online activity about Anton P. Chekhov's The Lottery Ticket. Read the story, take the test, share your results! Did I mention it's free?

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Long Response: Answer the following question in complete sentences. Use evidence from the text.    What lesson is the author of this story trying to teach readers with this story? Use examples from the text to support your response. Then write your answer on this Padlet.

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Long Response: Answer the following question in complete sentences. Use evidence from the text.    What lesson is the author of this story trying to teach readers with this story? Use examples from the text to support your response. Then write your answer on this Padlet.

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Don't make delusion before you make sure you really get the price
Ivan in order to annoy his wife he glanced quickly, to spite her at the fourth page on the newspaper and read out triumphantly:

"Series 9,499, number 46! Not 26!"

Hatred and hope both disappeared at once, and it began immediately to seem to Ivan Dmitritch and his wife that their rooms were dark and small and low-pitched, that the supper they had been eating was not doing them good, but lying heavy on their stomachs, that the evenings were long and wearisome...

Money can bring out the ugliness of people
"She would begrudge me every penny," he thought, with a glance at his wife. "The lottery ticket is hers, not mine! Besides, what is the use of her going abroad? What does she want there? She would shut herself up in the hotel, and not let me out of her sight... I know!"

And for the first time in his life his mind dwelt on the fact that his wife had grown elderly and plain, and that she was saturated through and through with the smell of cooking, while he was still young, fresh, and healthy, and might well have got married again.

"Of course, all that is silly nonsense," he thought; "but... why should she go abroad? What would she make of it? And yet she would go, of course... I can fancy... In reality it is all one to her, whether it is Naples or Klin. She would only be in my way. I should be dependent upon her. I can fancy how, like a regular woman, she will lock the money up as soon as she gets it... She will hide it from me... She will look after her relatives and grudge me every penny."

Ivan Dmitritch thought of her relatives. All those wretched brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles would come crawling about as soon as they heard of the winning ticket, would begin whining like beggars, and fawning upon them with oily, hypocritical smiles. Wretched, detestable people! If they were given anything, they would ask for more; while if they were refused, they would swear at them, slander them, and wish them every kind of misfortune.

Ivan Dmitritch remembered his own relatives, and their faces, at which he had looked impartially in the past, struck him now as repulsive and hateful.

"They are such reptiles!" he thought.

And his wife's face, too, struck him as repulsive and hateful. Anger surged up in his heart against her, and he thought malignantly:

"She knows nothing about money, and so she is stingy. If she won it she would give me a hundred roubles, and put the rest away under lock and key."

And he looked at his wife, not with a smile now, but with hatred. She glanced at him too, and also with hatred and anger. She had her own daydreams, her own plans, her own reflections; she understood perfectly well what her husband's dreams were. She knew who would be the first to try and grab her winnings.

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For the last question, just type your response here. Don't forget to type your name in the SUBJECT, before you answer.

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For the last question, just type your response here. Don't forget to type your name in the SUBJECT, before you answer.

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Small difference can cause large difference. "Series 9,499, number 46! Not 26!" They lost 75000. : )

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The author is trying to teach readers that having greed over money can lead to sinking of a relationship.
From the text, "She would begrudge me every penny,"  shows that Ivan was doubting that his wife would not share the money with him as the lottery was hers. The following paragraphs show that Ivan started to think about all the worse scenarios that could happen to him if his wife had gotten the money.
It is also clear that from the sentence "She had her own daydreams, her own plans, her own reflections; she understood perfectly well what her husband's dreams were.", Masha was unwilling to share the money with her husband. Lastly, both of them were full of hatred and false hopes which led to Ivan simply saying a number even if the number on the newspaper matched the numbers on the lottery ticket.

SO DONT BE GREEDY AH I TELL YOU :)

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The lesson that the author is trying to teach us is people tend to show their true colors in front of money unintentionally, their personalities changed after being blinded by greed, so pay attention to the people close to us. Take for an example, after Ivan and his wife knew that they won the lottery, they were happy at first, but Ivan soon changed after realizing that the ticket does not belong to him and has to share the money with her wife, on the other hand, Marsha too was not happy about sharing the winnings with her husband too, she wanted to spend those winnings all for herself.

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Lesson: Open your eyes wider next time when looking at the results of the lottery.

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The lesson the author try to tell us is early celebration for victory doesn't mean you are the final winner.
Hatred and hope both disappeared at once, and it began immediately to seem to Ivan Dmitritch and his wife that their rooms were dark and small and low-pitched, that the supper they had been eating was not doing them good, but lying heavy on their stomachs, that the evenings were long and wearisome
Ivan and his wife are already thinking of how they should spend their money such as vacations and did not double check if they really won the lottery.

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Money can corrupt the soul. The prospect of a huge lottery win makes Ivan and Masha look at each other with hatred and suspicion, each one believing that the other will be negatively changed by their sudden windfall.

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By the way, teacher used to have a car with the plate number 9499. Never won a lottery though with the number :(

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By the way, teacher used to have a car with the plate number 9499. Never won a lottery though with the number :(

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The author is trying to teach the readers about the fact that greed and self centeredness could easily ruin our relationship with others.

From the text, we can see that Ivan as well as Masha are having their own daydreams on how they should spend their money for themselves rather than for the family or anything together. They wanted to selfishly own the fortune for themselves and fulfill only their own desires. This causes them to think that their spouse is somehow either not worthy of possessing such a fortune or thinking that their spouse would be the problem while spending that fortune. If merely an imagination about having this fortune has caused hatred to grow between them, things could be a whole lot worse if they had actually won the lottery.

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human mind is like a garden and the thought is like a seed,if u plant a seed of happiness  in the soil,it will bring u fruit of happiness,if u plant the seed of hatred abt a thing or a person and water it day by day,over time,it will grow into a tall big tree will deep and extensive root.moral lesson is ,think good and good follows.And pictures came crowding on his imagination, each more gracious and poetical than the last. And in all these pictures he saw himself well-fed, serene, healthy, felt warm, even hot! Here, after eating a summer soup, cold as ice, he lay on his back on the burning sand close to a stream or in the garden under a lime-tree... It is hot... His little boy and girl are crawling about near him, digging in the sand or catching ladybirds in the grass. He dozes sweetly, thinking of nothing, and feeling all over that he need not go to the office today, tomorrow, or the day after. Or, tired of lying still, he goes to the hayfield, or to the forest for mushrooms, or watches the peasants catching fish with a net. When the sun sets he takes a towel and soap and saunters to the bathing-shed, where he undresses at his leisure, slowly rubs his bare chest with his hands, and goes into the water. And in the water, near the opaque soapy circles, little fish flit to and fro and green water-weeds nod their heads. After bathing there is tea with cream and milk rolls... In the evening a walk or vint with the neighbors.van Dmitritch thought of her relatives. All those wretched brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles would come crawling about as soon as they heard of the winning ticket, would begin whining like beggars, and fawning upon them with oily, hypocritical smiles. Wretched, detestable people! If they were given anything, they would ask for more; while if they were refused, they would swear at them, slander them, and wish them every kind of misfortune

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Despite not having much faith in lottery, his wife still buys lottery ticket and try their luck. This shows how desperate it is for them to gain wealth in a short period of time with luck. There is no free lunch on earth and there will not be, people shouldn't rely on gaining wealth through lottery and Ivan shouldn't have gotten so much hope when the first number announced.

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lesson: greediness is a nature of human.
You always want more than you need.

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The lesson of this story is one shouldn't simply marry someone they don't love and trust.
The context "She would begrudge me every penny," shows how Ivan doesn't trust her wife Masha. Different plannings, viewpoints and values in life make it hard for both of them to not be hatred against each other. This isn't just because of the money but it's more about the conflict that made them realise how fragile their relationship is. They aren't wrong, they just don't really know what they want in life.
If you don't love and trust your significant other fully in life, just don't marry them as it just makes life even miserable, especially when there are conflicts.

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Free money usually brings hope, but it usually also comes with hatred.
"Hatred and hope both disappeared at once"
Be careful what you wish for when you have the money. If it's for family, it would indeed bring hope.
" "And if we have won," he said--"why, it will be a new life, it will be a transformation!"
If it's for your own self, it would bring the worst out of you.
"he thought malignantly: "She knows nothing about money, and so she is stingy."

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Humans are selfish.
Knowing the probability of gaining a benefit might cause a person to have immoral thoughts.

In reality, some people are only thinking about their personal advantages and doesn't care for the others. They are always imagining about how to keep everything to themselves despite knowing that it could be shared evenly.

Even Ivan and Masha are married for years, they did not manage to overcome the temptation of the lottery and started having bad thoughts against each other. Love is not strong after all? haha