A couple of criticisms, if I may. First, you repeated the phrase "the characters' thoughts are not revealed."Second, I think the story is more about how people will follow along blindly with what the group says and does without questioning the reasons than it is about scapegoating. If you analyse this story again in college (and you may very well, it's very popular with college English teachers), you may want to take a closer look at the parts of the story where it hints at parts of the ritual being lost, (you did do this a little in this essay, but I think it needs to be examined in more detail).Also, I'd bet you a dollar to a donut that your teacher set out a formula she wanted followed in the papers, and doing anything outside of the way she wanted it written would result in a bad grade, even if the paper was insightful and well written (I had a teacher like that in high school.)Read the story again... and again. You get more out of it with repeated readings, catch little details that make it creepier every time you read it.
- 12/12/2003
- 18:48:28
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