https://padlet.com/vansicklemic/r3qtpa0n5xsmw9ox How is “destructive silence”(when one stays silent about things that are difficult, it can cause harm) a concept in both stories? en-us 2021-09-27 17:52:44 UTC 2025-12-18 16:15:17 UTC hello@padlet.com vansicklemic https://padlet.com/vansicklemic/r3qtpa0n5xsmw9ox/wish/1772057617 In "The Lottery" destructive silence is evident, because if people spoke up when their friends and family were being killed, then the tradition of the lottery would probably have stopped by the time Tessie Hutchinson was even alive. However, because the villagers whose friends and family had been chosen for the lottery stayed silent, The lottery was still a tradition at the time that Tessie was chosen for it.]]> 2021-09-27 18:07:10 UTC https://padlet.com/vansicklemic/r3qtpa0n5xsmw9ox/wish/1772057617 vansicklemic https://padlet.com/vansicklemic/r3qtpa0n5xsmw9ox/wish/1772072785 If the villagers hadn't kept their silence about the lottery, then they would have more workers in the fields, and would therefore have a more bountiful harvest than if they had kept killing off possible future farmhands and landowners.]]> 2021-09-27 18:12:31 UTC https://padlet.com/vansicklemic/r3qtpa0n5xsmw9ox/wish/1772072785 vansicklemic https://padlet.com/vansicklemic/r3qtpa0n5xsmw9ox/wish/1772126585 In The Hunger Games the reader can clearly see the effects of destructive silence. People didn't have the courage to fight in the rebellion that took place seventy-four years ago, and, as a result, the capitol created the Hunger Games to punish the districts for their disloyalty to the country. The fact that the Hunger Games is still happening and is still a tradition tells the reader that people have kept there horribly destructive silence.]]> 2021-09-27 18:31:25 UTC https://padlet.com/vansicklemic/r3qtpa0n5xsmw9ox/wish/1772126585 vansicklemic https://padlet.com/vansicklemic/r3qtpa0n5xsmw9ox/wish/1772154983 If the people had been courageous enough and the districts had succeeded in their rebellion seventy-four years earlier, than the country would be a different place altogether. There would be plenty of food everywhere and the Hunger Games wouldn't be a thing.]]> 2021-09-27 18:41:33 UTC https://padlet.com/vansicklemic/r3qtpa0n5xsmw9ox/wish/1772154983 vansicklemic https://padlet.com/vansicklemic/r3qtpa0n5xsmw9ox/wish/1775492910 2021-09-28 17:43:38 UTC https://padlet.com/vansicklemic/r3qtpa0n5xsmw9ox/wish/1775492910 vansicklemic https://padlet.com/vansicklemic/r3qtpa0n5xsmw9ox/wish/1775496936 2021-09-28 17:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/vansicklemic/r3qtpa0n5xsmw9ox/wish/1775496936 vansicklemic https://padlet.com/vansicklemic/r3qtpa0n5xsmw9ox/wish/1775504636 2021-09-28 17:47:36 UTC https://padlet.com/vansicklemic/r3qtpa0n5xsmw9ox/wish/1775504636 vansicklemic https://padlet.com/vansicklemic/r3qtpa0n5xsmw9ox/wish/1775519296 2021-09-28 17:52:38 UTC https://padlet.com/vansicklemic/r3qtpa0n5xsmw9ox/wish/1775519296