Broadcast Elements In Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

A special interest story in a news broadcast is intended to detail the problems and concerns faced by an individual or a group of people in an emotional way to elicit feelings of interest or sympathy in the audience. I therefore used the characters, themes and plot found in Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery as the basis of my broadcast element because this text is a disquieting critique on the violence and inhumanity we hear about on a perpetual basis that evokes emotion in nearly everyone who reads it. In my feature story, I describe the barbaric traditions of a seemingly convivial town where a lottery is conducted on an annual basis. The villagers are required to gather in the square and each householder is compelled to draw a slip of paper from