This is a story that could take place in any of the poor countries: A poor man wins a lottery with the largest amount. He will exchange the ticket the next day. On the day he got the news, he invites his friends to an expensive restaurant. They drink heavily. He vomits on his clothes. Drunken, back to home, he immediately lies down. His wife washes his clothes. On the morning, he discovers to his surprise that he doesn't have the ticket anymore. The ticket had gone into pieces since his wife washed his clothes. He never buys another ticket.
The lotterimania and related incidents are in fact, a common theme in the literatures of poor countries or those with unjust economical distribution. There are more than five Turkish movies about a poor man winning the lottery, and the ensuing changes in his life and his surroundings. In some other movies, a man is misidentified as the lottery winner by his family and their attiudes and treatment toward the little man with no-way-out in his bare survival dramatically changes. Nevertheless, the fact that those themes are frequently visited ones does not lower the worth of a story within this thematic tradition. However the problem lies in how the writer shape the same material. In this endeavour, the writer of 'The Lottery of Karma' fails. It is too simple to call it as an adult story. If one asks a secondary school student to write a story about a poor man who wins a lottery and then loses the ticket, maybe the teenager would mobilize a higher level of imagination. A writer should feel shame, if such a teenager story is awarded.
This is a story that could take place in any of the poor countries: A poor man wins a lottery with the largest amount. He will exchange the ticket the next day. On the day he got the news, he invites his friends to an expensive restaurant. They drink heavily. He vomits on his clothes. Drunken, back to home, he immediately lies down. His wife washes his clothes. On the morning, he discovers to his surprise that he doesn't have the ticket anymore. The ticket had gone into pieces since his wife washed his clothes. He never buys another ticket.
The lotterimania and related incidents are in fact, a common theme in the literatures of poor countries or those with unjust economical distribution. There are more than five Turkish movies about a poor man winning the lottery, and the ensuing changes in his life and his surroundings. In some other movies, a man is misidentified as the lottery winner by his family and their attiudes and treatment toward the little man with no-way-out in his bare survival dramatically changes. Nevertheless, the fact that those themes are frequently visited ones does not lower the worth of a story within this thematic tradition. However the problem lies in how the writer shape the same material. In this endeavour, the writer of 'The Lottery of Karma' fails. It is too simple to call it as an adult story. If one asks a secondary school student to write a story about a poor man who wins a lottery and then loses the ticket, maybe the teenager would mobilize a higher level of imagination. A writer should feel shame, if such a teenager story is awarded.
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