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In the Catcher in the Rye, Holden uses everyone one around him as a scapegoat so he doesn’t have to take responsibility for his actions and deal with the consequences. In The Lottery, the use this ritual as a way to preserve there tradition while sacrificing one person as there scapegoat. In Omelas they use a child as a scapegoat for all there issues and unhappiness, they blame this child for making them unhappy, so they neglect him believing that it is what keeps the people of Omelas happy. Many authors use scapegoats to reflect the many realities we see in today's society, this concept of blaming one group/ individual for mistake/problems is morally unacceptable and I believe author use this concept to help the readers reflect on there own actions and beliefs. We see scapegoating every day, Donald Trump blames Mexicans and illegal immigrants for hurting the economy which is B.S. because they take the jobs we don’t want. Hitler in WWII blamed the Jews for the failure of the German economy and this lead Hitler to murder and imprison millions of people.

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One author explores this in the story of Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin.

The way it is shown is that one child is suffering for the rest of the people to enjoy their lives and be happy.

Another one you can see this in is The Lottery by Shirley Jackson.

One person is sacrificed for the rest of the town to move forward in life. Lottery in June corn be heavy soon.

This does happen at hhs I personally don’t see it but i hear about it all the time from other people.

It’s going to happen in the community people with blame others for something they think the other did.

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Besides obvious instances in ‘The Lottery’ and ‘Omelas,’  the concept of a scapegoat is observed in ‘Lifeboat Ethics’ and ‘Singer’s Solution to World Poverty.’ In both of these texts, the scapegoats are the poor, or those who were born into poverty. These people suffer at the expense of others’ luxuries.

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In the story The Catcher in the Rye, Holden uses many other people as scapegoats for his problems and blames others for his wrong doings

People use High Schoolers as scapegoats to blame for the amount of trash on the side of the roads when really it's the adults, parents and teachers that through garbage out their window.

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Omelas- The tortured child was locked up in the basement.

Singers Solution- The wealthy is expected to give a certain amount of money to charities for the poor.

Lifeboat Ethics- The poor aren't given the same opportunities as the wealthy.

We see scapegoats all the time at school because people are constantly being blame for things they didn't do.

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Dictionary.com

Definition: a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.

Lifeboat Ethics

Bob decision if he should save his car and himself OR save the kids ahead of him and not let them get run over by the train. If he saved the kids but his car got crashed then he would possibly have financial problems and would have a hard time in life. If he saved his car then the kids would be runned over and the family and friends would be affected. The family will be in mourn and Bob would have to live with that guilt he has for the rest of his life.

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In singer's solution scapegoat is used constantly to show how people are blamed based on the choices that they make

The author explores it by showing us a situation and what the possible outcomes are.

I don’t often see anyone using the idea of scapegoat outside of books and essays. When i do see it it tends to involve racism.

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5.) Singer’s solution to end world poverty would be an excellent example of being a scapegoat

Lifeboat ethics would be another source because countries aren’t getting a whole bunch of resources like everyone else making them upset with the other countries.

6.) He is saying that other countries are more poor than others so they receive less than those that are in a larger country

In the Lifeboat ethics if we all shared a form of resources between each other then there wouldn’t be a problem with people (countries) being left out from each other

7.) I have seen myself being a scapegoat, I like to put others before me so if there comes a situation where I can help someone out, I will.

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Scapegoat: a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency.  A person or group that is made to bear blame for others.

“Singer’s Solution to World Poverty” and “Lifeboat Ethics” explore this concept.

In “Singer’s Solution to World Poverty”, the author describes a person named Dora who uses a scapegoat to get a T.V.  She then broadens the subject, making Americans who spend on non necessities using the poor as scapegoats to feed their leisures.  “Lifeboat Ethics” discusses how the poor is the world’s scapegoat.

You can find scapegoats in political debates, school, and in communities to make sense of difficult situations.

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Definition by google: A person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency

Definition from Dictionary.com: a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place

The authors blame the rich for not helping the poor in “the case against helping the poor”.

I see it all throughout my life, my friends used to scapegoat me by saying “you are the reason we don’t have nice things”, of course they were joking but I still took them seriously.

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Through many of the stories we have read, we follow the concept scapegoat. In Omelas and The Lottery, we find this by sacrificing a life for other happiness. In Lifeboat Ethics and Singers Solution we find this by the poor not having the same resource opportunities.

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"The Lottery" demonstrates that a town uses one person as a scapegoat to hopefully have a good harvest later that year.
"The Omelas" also talks about how a child in a basement is constantly sad in order for the whole town to be happy.
Scapegoats are all around us in society. We have them at school and at home and in our everyday lives.

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A scapegoat is a person or race who is blamed for wrong doings. In the story, “The Lottery”, when Tessie Huntchinson was about to die, she kept trying to rile up the people, to stop them. She wanted to make them turn onto the people who led the lottery. Blaming them that they didn’t give her husband a chance. This term is used mostly in Life Boat Ethics. He kept mentioning how immagrants are affecting society today, using there privaledges against us.

For example in history, the tragic story we all know as the Holocaust. Germans blamed the Jewish people for all the suffering and depression in the country, making it easy for them to be casted out. An example in today’s society is many muslims and islamic people are being casted out and blamed for all the wrongs in our country. Like the terror attacks on New York or Florida.

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Scapegoat-a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency.

When we read the dilemma of sacrificing people as well as omelas.

I see it happen a lot to friends who thought they were safe and could never get in trouble with the law but once they start to hangout with the wrong crowd then they become a scapegoat.

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1. Lifeboat Ethics because we let others deal with their problems, like poverty and disease, even though it is in part our country's fault, since it would put us in danger to fully help them.

2. I see this happen in my life with things like racism and sexism. Minorities and Women are blamed for things out of their control like it's obviously the woman's fault for the wage gap because they don't work hard enough and it's obviously the black communities fault for the devastation the war on drugs has brought them.

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Omelas have a big part with scapegoats because of the tortured child.

The child is locked up for the own good of the society.

We have scapegoats everywhere, in school we blame teachers for everything even if its our own fault.

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Singer Solution, Lifeboat Ethics

Singer Solution - Many wealthy people reason that somebody else will donate money to the poor to justify not giving their excess wealth to the needy

Lifeboat Ethics- The author blames the governments of these poor nations for their poverty and uses that blame to justify not giving them aid since their poverty is, according to the author, a direct consequence of the government's mistakes

Life example - We reason that we shouldn’t get involved in important issues because we “won’t make a difference” or “don’t want to cause commotion

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The Lottery and Omelas both show scapegoats by sacrificing someone to keep their towns happy. In Lifeboat Ethics and Singer's Solution, the scapegoat is represented as the poor people that don't have many resources. By not giving them all their entitled resources, they can have more.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M2sMfzImoklId05uu7aS6FcUEAG2mg_IxpWqM8uVhOI/edit

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“The Lottery” demonstrates scapegoat by sacrificing one person for the predicted growth of their next harvest. “...Omelas” uses the child in the basement as the scapegoat for the city’s overall happiness. “Lifeboat Ethics…” blames the poor nations and their growing population for the strain on the world’s resources. “Singer Solution…” passes the blame to everyone with any extra money who isn’t donating to those across the sea.

A scapegoat could even be your sibling when you blame them for something you broke, or the age-old excuse of “your dog eating your homework” when you forgot it.

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We can see scapegoat in the singer solution because he believes there should be some guilt behind us having it ¨all¨ when they have nothing.

Scapegoat isn't something to stand out to us every day, but in small ways it could be a sibling getting yelled at for something you did or a team having to run because of something on person did.

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https://docs.google.com/a/district158.org/document/d/1Qo_48xsuA0i0l8FM9KQ9SrW0Lg4SChTkDMcWoTPXDsE/edit?usp=sharing

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Omelas and the lottery are stories that represent scapegoats. Omelas represent scapegoats because there is a child who gets locked in a basement so everyone can be happy. In the lottery Tessie is the scapegoat because she is the one that draws the black dot and has to get stoned. No I do not see any scapegoat happening here at HHS.