Fairness is based on your own opinion.  How you where brought up to be and the people you have been around.  The past two weeks I read “The Lottery” and “The lady, or the Tiger”; these two short stories have different points about fairness.  Fairness is not something that you can be wrong in it is based on your own judgment or opinion.

            “The lottery” was about a ritual made in a small town of about 300 people.  That ritual was that the head of the household would draw a paper and then each person in the household would pick out a paper and then who ever got the paper would be stoned to death.  This to me seems to be unfair because what order would you go in and will the first person have a better chance not to get it and the last person would not have a big chance because he only had to pick the last piece of paper there was.  In the town it seems like it was something normal but I guess it would have been if you were brought up like that seen your childhood.

            In the “The Lady, or the Tiger” is there was somebody that was committed a crime or that was thought to have something to do with it was put in the arena.  In the arena they had the choice of two doors in one there was a tiger which would kill the person in the arena and in the other there was a lovely woman waiting for the man and that would marry him that instant.  I think this was kind of fair because the person in the arena had the choice of which one the person wanted to pick.  It was a 50/50 chance to safe yourself.  I think it had to do with the luck of the person.

            I think that everybody have different point in what seems fair or unfair.  I think that whatever people think about this story is right.  In what you choice there can never be something wrong with them.  Fairness depends on the time that you are in and the morals you grow up with.