Sparkling Water

The Lottery

1. This article is about how people win the lottery and end up at rock bottom. Some people tried to help other people and ended up bankrupt. When they win the lottery they think thhat they are super rich and then they go buy cars and houses and before they know it they are way over their heads. One guy won $16.2 million , but now  he lives on Social Security and now he wishes it never happened. His former girlfriend sued  him for a share of his winnings and his own brother went to jail for hiring a hit man to kill him and now he lives on $450 a month and food stamps!  Ken Proxmire was a machinist  when he won $1 million in the Michigan lottery and he moved to California and went into car buisness with his brothers. In five years he filed for bankrupcy. o basically winning the lottery isn’t the greatest thing to these people.

2. The prediction that I make about what will happen in the Pearl is that Kino might go crazy about finding the pearl and of course he will help his infant son first and after that the people that treated him badly would come to him asking for money and he probably wouldn’t help him.

A connection I can make from the story,The Lottery and The pearl is that in the lottery the people won thousands of dollars and in the pearl, Kino finds a pearl that could help him a lot. In the Pearl, the town finds out that Kino has found the pearl and they all wish that they had it.  Kino then realized that the pearl was going to comfort and secure them.