Create a research thesis statement that analyzes the types of thinking or non-thinking in the film. Use the
web link I provided as source and the reasoning sheet to guide your discussion. Each character in the film
represents an idea or a way of thinking that is fundamentally rooted in their beliefs instead of the facts.
After watching the film, the web lecture and reading the reasoning sheet, create a research paper that helps
explain our understanding of critical thinking or non-thinking; also, why we suspend our rational minds and
give way to fallacies. Does this theme connect with the “The Lottery”? How? What happens to our thought
process when we are in groups? Can you research and find information about mob mentality or cults to help
bolster your ideas? What about standing by principles and convictions- what type of thinking is required for
that? Was it important that the critical thinker was an architect? Why did the playwright not provide names?
Is that crucial to this play/screenplay?