'The thing with the stuff'

'The thing with the stuff' is the classic joke I have made in American because of me poor English. I have a friend, Malvern. He is Chinese American, who was born here and cannot speak Chinese. My English is poor, espicial a idiot in cooking vocabulary. and his Chinses is in the same level as my English. So when we get together try to make something to eat, it must be a funny time. One day, I told him I was missing his mom's dishes, but I forgot the name of that dish. So I said: 'the dinner you mom cooked last week is very dicilous. Can you cook it?' 'What's the name?' 'I don't know!' 'What's it like?' 'The thing with the stuff, you know, the thing, with, the stuff' I was expaining to him while acting with my hands and feet in the air. He was more confused,'xxx ?' He said a name of a kind of food or condiment, but I didn't know the words. 5 minutes later, we were both exhaust ahout this puzzle game and we both don't know what was I talking about. I only hope next time his mom will cook the same dish, then I will say: 'Look, the thing with the stuff!' Until today, Malvern still make fun on me. Every time when we go to restaurant, he will tell the waiter: 'I want a salmon, give this guy a thing with the stuff..... '

The question about the story Lottery

What is ironic about the discussion of the traditional or ritualistic activities surruond the lottery? What point do you think Jackson may be trying to make? When the viliagers talk about the lottery, it give us a sense: it is very old trandition and it seems to be very normal. It sounds like a ritual raised every year and gether every body together to celebrate something. No one will think it will be such a brutal thing. children are playing, adults are chatting about the crops, as if they don't know someone will be killed. There is only one conlusion. Every body is familar with it and every body gets used to it. From the dialogue, we can see the the hearts of these villager are stone; the spirit of them are numb; the soul of them are dead. They don't care about others' lives. the only thing they care about is their crops. I think the author here just want to emphasize the barbarity of the lottery through describing the calmness of these villagers. Additonally, by the end, the poor women still yell:' it is unfair.'. it also highlights that no one think it is wrong. The one who draw the paper with black spot is only a unlucky guy.