The Lottery Response

What is the significance of Old Man Warner bringing up the "young folks". What role do young people play in our society?

Young people in our society plays an important role in the developments of our community. Old man Warner mentioned in the story that “nothing is good enough for [the young folks].” Because as young people are born into an era with constant advancements of technology they are tempted, unintentionally, to continue to seek for more advancement to make a more convenient living. Young people can be compared with the sun-rise, they make it possible for seeds to grow and flourish into flowers with colorful leafs, in other words, they give society hope. Contrarily, the rest of the population, of whom, not defined as “young people”, are like the sun-set which ends the growth of seedlings, and will eventually lead to another sunrise.

Young people, like us, are the leaders of our society. Because we are much more adaptive to new environments and fresh new customs than adults; therefore, in a society, we possess much more potential to bring about changes. If young and inexperienced people can bring changes to a society, then why are adults not capable of doing so? It is because adults have TOO much experience. They have endured so many life experience that they have already set in their mind, the line that stand between what is right and what is wrong. They gone through so many life experience that they have established, unconsciously,the limitations of creativity, and they commenced to clung onto old traditions and customs. This, prevented them from taking the leadership role in our own society which calls for a great variety of improvements in different aspects. However, holding onto traditions is human nature, even as a teenager, I have already began to clung to my tradition that I had experienced. Taking Camp Squamish for example, when we were deciding our team name, despite the fact that the name “Cheaka Cheaka Cha” is just amazing and original. I still hoped that we had agreed on the name“Team Awesome” simply because I used the name the year before and I had hoped to continue the pride. Therefore, as a 15 year old, I have already began to set my own expectations and hold on to traditions, it is unavoidable. Accordingly, think about how narrow minded people are when they age into adulthood? Ever wondered why many parents expects their children to walk the same path as them career wise? It is because they are just vulnerable to change, and change, means placing themselves in a position of temporary insecurity and lost of direction. This is why young people have more potential to lead the reform of our society because they have less tendency to stick with traditions.

Many adults have already realized this, and have already started to make use of the creative minds of young people. Looking at the European LEGO company for example, the company is broken down into two main departments: designing, manufacturing. Because the majority of adults have such limited imaginations, the company hired a 6 year old boy as the chief designer for major LEGO projects and products. This shows that our society are beginning to recognize the importance of young people and their possibility to make our society a better place. This, the respect given towards the young one's ideology, is a benefit Warner did not realize or recognize, have great potential to bring climatic evolutions to their biased and corrupt society.