Consequences

Choices always come with either good or bad consequences. In the words of Mat Kearney, “sooner or later” connects in a way to these stories because sooner or later your bad or good luck will come your way. I know people who do drugs and smoke, I see them going homeless when they grow up and I see my sister transferring to a University because she is making the right choices now. These choices can relate to literature such as in the short stories The Lottery, What of this goldfish would you wish, by any other name, and A wife’s story. In two of these stories the decisions were good, but in the other two the choices were bad and wrong.

One story showed a very bad choice. In “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, there was a family and the father out of the whole family got chosen to die, Mrs.Hutchinson said that they should take their daughter instead of her husband. This was a bad choice for Mrs.Hutchinson to make. The consequences to her choice was that when Mr.Summers had a re-draw she was the one with the  black dot who would have to die. This led to her being more of bad sport and she was not happy about it and she began to say that her older children should be able to draw with the family that they have.

   Another story showed a very good choice. In the story “What of this Goldfish Would you Wish?” by Etgar Keret, there is  a good choice done by one of the main characters. The story is about a kid interviewing his neighborhood to see what people would want to wish for from a magic goldfish. The kid got to one special house in which there was a man who actually owned a goldfish and he was amazed by it because he felt it was a coincidence that they were talking about a goldfish. Sergei hit him causing the kid to died. Fortunately, sergei had an actual magical fish. Hitting the kid was a bad choice for Sergei because he had one last wish to use from his magical fish. Sergei was sad but finally made the right choice of using his last wish to save the kids life and bring him back to life. There were good consequences to this because Sergei was actually pretty happy that he used his last wish for something good as well as how he had used the past to wishes.

In another story, “By Any Other Name” there is a good decision. The story is about how Santha and her sister Premila move from being home schooled to going to a public school. When they went to school, they met a friend. That friend told them that their english and more understanding names would be Cynthia and Pamela. They kept on with these names and the traditions of the white people until one day “cynthia” was told that she was to sit in the back because Indians, being her race were cheaters. Cynthia being offended went for her sister and left the school. This was a bad choice for the teacher to make but a good choice for ¨cynthia¨ to make. The consequences for this were good because Santha learned that it wasn't her acting differently, it was ¨cynthia¨.

The other story that showed a relation to this is ¨A Wife´s Story¨ in which there was a bad choice. The story is about a family of wolves and a bad tragedy. The tragedy is that the dad wolf has a curse in which at a certain time at night he becomes a human. The wife always was suspicious about what he did when he would wake up at the middle of the night until one night. One night the dad wolf left and he was turning into a human when the mom wolf saw everything and she was scared about everything and she thought that he was coming towards her so she howled and her sister came and attacked the husband and he died. This was a bad decision because the dad died and she was devastated about it. The consequences about it was that the dad died.  

In conclusion the choices and decisions of these stories always had consequences following it. Right or wrong you will have consequences and they will be good or bad depending on you.