Elements Of Prose
Rochellane R. Plasabas Grade 9- Alexandrite
Elements of Prose
Setting: The lottery takes place at the central square.
Plot: One beautiful summer day, Mr. Summers organize a lottery in the town. All of the people gathered at 10:00, with stones with them. Mr. Summers has a box with pieces of paper. Everyone's family is written on those papers. He calls up all the men of each family to draw a piece of paper. After drawing it, it turns out the Hutchinson family have picked the marked piece of paper so they put more pieces of paper in the box. Afterwards, the Hutchinson family picks a piece of paper out of the box. Tess Hutchinson, one of the Hutchinson families, picked the paper with the black dot. She went in front of the people and said that the lottery is unfair. So, the people throw stones at her. She was stoned to death.
Conflict: When Tess Hutchinson disagrees with the result of the lottery then, Bill Hutchinson gets “it” and his wife protests about it.
Characters:
Mr. Joe Summers
Mr. Harry Graves
Mrs. Graves
Old Man Warner
Mr. and Mrs. Adams
The Delacroix Family
The Watsons and the Dunbars
Mr. Bill Hutchinson
The Hutchinson Children
Tess Hutchinson
Mr. and Mrs. Martin
Baxter Martin
Point of View: The use of the third-person point of view, with just a few cases of third-person omniscient thrown in, is an effective way of telling this ironic tale.
Theme:
"The Lottery" plays around with the concept of family in interesting ways. The thing is, each person in the lottery must draw by household, so this is the moment, each year, when belonging to a given family has the most socially recognized significance.
The reluctance of people to reject outdated traditions, ideas, rules, laws, and practices.
Elements of Prose
Setting: The lottery takes place at the central square.
Plot: One beautiful summer day, Mr. Summers organize a lottery in the town. All of the people gathered at 10:00, with stones with them. Mr. Summers has a box with pieces of paper. Everyone's family is written on those papers. He calls up all the men of each family to draw a piece of paper. After drawing it, it turns out the Hutchinson family have picked the marked piece of paper so they put more pieces of paper in the box. Afterwards, the Hutchinson family picks a piece of paper out of the box. Tess Hutchinson, one of the Hutchinson families, picked the paper with the black dot. She went in front of the people and said that the lottery is unfair. So, the people throw stones at her. She was stoned to death.
Conflict: When Tess Hutchinson disagrees with the result of the lottery then, Bill Hutchinson gets “it” and his wife protests about it.
Characters:
Mr. Joe Summers
Mr. Harry Graves
Mrs. Graves
Old Man Warner
Mr. and Mrs. Adams
The Delacroix Family
The Watsons and the Dunbars
Mr. Bill Hutchinson
The Hutchinson Children
Tess Hutchinson
Mr. and Mrs. Martin
Baxter Martin
Point of View: The use of the third-person point of view, with just a few cases of third-person omniscient thrown in, is an effective way of telling this ironic tale.
Theme:
"The Lottery" plays around with the concept of family in interesting ways. The thing is, each person in the lottery must draw by household, so this is the moment, each year, when belonging to a given family has the most socially recognized significance.
The reluctance of people to reject outdated traditions, ideas, rules, laws, and practices.