Literary Devices In The Lottery

In studying and looking at the sophistication of literary terms in “The Lottery” there are many different literary devices we can figure out in the specific storyline of the lottery ad especially in its themes. The story “The Lottery” focuses on an extremely heavy amount of suspicion between different social classes in the story. This suspense is a literary device that can be heavily seen through the story. The celebration of the lottery can be seen as a vital tradition in their old-style neighborhood as we see thanksgiving, Easter, and Christmas in our modern society.
There are many subtle hints that lead to a shocking conclusion that what these villagers do to each other every year is seen as a very old ritualistic tradition. Not specifically
You win a lottery in a colonial city, modern day suburbia, or urban location; you think of someone who will get all the materialistic desires they have ever wanted through their entire lifespan, this village should have just quit while they were ahead. People are dying in the name of the black box, which can be seen as a very bold statement in the old village; the black box almost simulates what the unlucky lottery winner’s life will look like when they are finally stoned to death by their own violent psychopathic villagers. A black box that simulates the darkness and emptiness of a coffin, which is inevitably where the unlucky lottery winner will end up; this is definitely not in any way the symbol of a happy ending for a lottery winner, that modern society perceives almost all the time.
Also pay attention to the tone of the story, there is a similarity between generic realism and a sickening nightmarish type of symbolism, the village at first seems like a normal old time village with normal people living and breathing in its walls, institutions and streets. This has all been concluded to be far from the actual reality of the nightmare in where a so-called normal village is now executing in the most disturbing way a member of their ow vital