Symbolism In The Old Man Warner

Old Man Warner and stones were the conventional symbols throughout the Lottery story. Old Man Warner was the oldest man in the village who participated seventy-seven times in the lottery. The stones used as weapons, the symbol of human violence because people in the past used stones as things to invent tools, to fight, and to kill things. Therefore, the Old Man Warner’s name and the stones represented as a caution, a warning of the dead that was very dangerous. The lottery was also a universal symbol in the story. The lottery has been taking places in many villages as an annual ritual without thinking about the irrational of it. The Old Man Warner, the stones, and the lottery has given the unusual prominence in the story. Mr. Warner name informed me to be careful of something in the story. He is faithful to the behavior of tradition which illogical ritual that passes from generation to generation. The lottery has given away the literal significance of the story. Nowadays, everyone wants to win the lottery. It represents a success, a lucky to win such as money, or valuable things. However, the lottery in the story is completely opposite. It symbolized for dead, a “lucky” to dead. Each symbol represents its own unique sign. The old

She uses them to her advantage to describe her ideas about human life, and the social situations. The combination leads the readers to understand the story, to the message behind it, to illustrate the themes of human life in the lottery. The way how people behave and conform in a group give the reader the example of the real world. People are murderous, irrational, petty, and generally bad toward one another in the irrationality of superstition because of blindly following tradition. The allegorical figures and symbols are interwoven with each other through the event, place, actions, and even the character