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"The Lottery" showed many displaying destructive silence by not standing up for themselves in difficult times. I saw that in the short film version of "The Lottery" . I witnessed this by looking at the townspeople's faces. The villagers looked sad and worried, like they just wanted the lottery to be over with. I can also see this by some people in the town talking about other towns that quit the lottery. " 'Some places have already quit lotteries. ' Mrs. Adams said. "

" ' Over in the north village they're talking of giving up the lottery.' "

These pieces of evidence show that people are aware that other towns are quitting the lottery and that some what to but they don't due to them wanting to keep up tradition.

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In "The Lottery" the townspeople stayed silent when they shouldn't have because they blindly followed tradition. The text says" 'Seventy-seventh year I been in the lottery,' Old Man Warner said as he went through the crowd. 'Seventy-seventh time.' " This shows they have been doing the lottery for years. Why quit now?

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People in the movie/book stayed quiet when they should have said something when their townspeople and family members were being sent away to fight for their lives in a meaning less "game"

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"No one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box. " This piece of evidence shows the people in the town don't want to upset tradition. Thus we can infer that no one wants to speak up about stopping the tradition.

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Katniss ends up standing up for herself in the games by telling the people in charge that she would kill herself and Peeta if the person in charge didn't let them leave. Thus, Katniss stands up for herself, creating a powerful image of something many were too scared to do.

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Many districts stayed silent about The Hunger Games even though many didn't like it. The Hunger Games was a "game" where 2 people from each district (12) would be put into a huge arena to fight to the death. While many people didn't like the idea of this they continued doing it for the case that their district might win. When your district wins you get money and food. People are dying in The Hunger Games due to people not standing up for themselves to stop The Hunger Games