Just an update on reading

I have been reading short stories for a while now. I have liked them, and I think I have gotten a good amount of information and knowable from them. I'm not too sure if this is supposed to be another reading log where we depict our stories, but I am just going to write about the feelings of reading, and stuff like that. I think these short stories gave me some good analyzation skills. Most short stories are about some random thing, but the whole point of it is really just the meaning. Like in The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, it was about community stoning someone, but its actually meaning is how people can blindly follow traditions. This sort of reminds me of a video I saw on Youtube by CGP Grey, an educational animator. This story can be found here. It is about a very powerful dragon that lives at the top of a mountain. The village below had no way to kill it. They were too weak. The dragon demanded 10,000 random villagers every day, and since the village couldn't fight it, they had to oblige. The teachers then taught the children how the dragon has its part in society, and is good, because it makes people live the best lives they can. There is much more to the story, so watch the video if you have the time. The Lottery reminded me of this story because they have similar meanings. In this video, the village could not refuse the dragon, so instead of trying to come up with a way to defeat the tyrant, they just accepted it in its place in society. In The Lottery, people accepted a horrible tradition just because it was already in society. They didn't question it. This also made me think that in The Lottery when the tradition was first introduced, it was probably questioned a lot and tried against, but in the end, it had its place. After years and years of the ritual happening, people just stopped questioning it. Overall I have liked reading short stories instead of an actual book more, because each one is different, and helps me understand more.