Summary Of The Lottery By Shirley Jackson
1 About The Lottery
The Lottery is written by Shirley Jackson, published in 1948, published by The New Yorker magazine. The story is fictional and so is the lottery. The plot of this story is the reflection of the society after World war II. The lottery happen every year on June 27th. The lottery was a teradion in the town. In the small town of about three hundred people is farming community.At the town square right in between the post office and the bank the lottery would take place. The families would gather the kids and go to the town square. Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves would come out with a black box. Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves would start the lottery, put together the lottery. The black box would have paper in it, one of them had a black dot on it. The husband's would go to the black box when Mr. Summers said there name when everyone got their name called then Mr. Summers says it is ok to open the paper if they had a black dot your whole family would have to draw again,then if you had the black dot you would be stoned (have stones thrown at you).That was Tessie.That is the plot and some information about The Lottery. …show more content…
There are some similarities between them. Frist, one of the similarities is that Mr. Warner says “Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon”. If Mr. Warner never said that then you would have no idea why the do thee lottery. Second, the other one is that Mrs. Delacroix picked up a huge rock. If she picked up a small rock it would change the perspective on how she feels about the lottery. Last of all, the same names were called. If the same name were not called you would be confused. In summary, those are the similarities between
The Lottery is written by Shirley Jackson, published in 1948, published by The New Yorker magazine. The story is fictional and so is the lottery. The plot of this story is the reflection of the society after World war II. The lottery happen every year on June 27th. The lottery was a teradion in the town. In the small town of about three hundred people is farming community.At the town square right in between the post office and the bank the lottery would take place. The families would gather the kids and go to the town square. Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves would come out with a black box. Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves would start the lottery, put together the lottery. The black box would have paper in it, one of them had a black dot on it. The husband's would go to the black box when Mr. Summers said there name when everyone got their name called then Mr. Summers says it is ok to open the paper if they had a black dot your whole family would have to draw again,then if you had the black dot you would be stoned (have stones thrown at you).That was Tessie.That is the plot and some information about The Lottery. …show more content…
There are some similarities between them. Frist, one of the similarities is that Mr. Warner says “Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon”. If Mr. Warner never said that then you would have no idea why the do thee lottery. Second, the other one is that Mrs. Delacroix picked up a huge rock. If she picked up a small rock it would change the perspective on how she feels about the lottery. Last of all, the same names were called. If the same name were not called you would be confused. In summary, those are the similarities between