The Lottery Themes
Theme 1: In the story when old men talked about the other town ending the lottery. He did not want to change like the other town.
Theme 2: believing it will increase the growth of the season, Tessie was the one who got sacrificed.
Theme 3: I believe they count as a serial killer; killing a person every year is a crime.
Theme 4: Every year it happens, people unable to study their life so they can't realize mistakes.
Theme 5: Tessie realized lottery was wrong when she had the black dot.
A List of Horrors:
1) The people in town were acting normal like worrying about didn't miss dinner Instead, they should worry about the person who going to die.
2. Realizing it, normal and they just want to get over it. They sound it like it simple to kill
a person.
3. The disturbing about it, children are innocent and they don't know what really happened.
4. He doesn't know what he was doing, most children think its game.
5. They did not care about who going to die as long it's not them. They are selfish for laughing at the death of one of their parent.
6. He did not care about her, society more important than his wife.
Foreshadowing: the boys gathering stones at the beginning and the black box.
Point of View: third person view
Climax: Tessia got the black dot.
Irony: The sunny day it means happy day, the irony because nothing in the story related to happiness.
They acting like they live in crave, killing people for unrealistic reasons. They think lottery is improving their life.
Study Questions:
1) The people in the town tried to sound normal like is lottery, sunny day, only take few hour to kill someone.
2) No because rich people will do anything to protect themselves and their family.
3) The original purpose is growth of crops.
4) eople believe it will help to improve crop and the growth.
5) Tessie realizes it was wrong after she got the black dot.
6) When she got the black dot, she realized it her turn to die.
7) I believe is act of murder.
8) No
9) The author used black box to represent; the box is death and sunny day irony for happiness
Discussion Questions:
1) Yes, Jackson used foreshadow when the boys gathering stones at the beginning and the black box. He doesn't give a name for the town or the country.
2) Unknown, it did because it could happen anywhere to humanity. Less
3) Some characters believe killing someone will get rain and some character do not believe in lottery. Tessie told Mr. Summer that he didn't give Bill Hutchinson enough time.
4) Examples of a lottery are sunny day, Tessie came late for the lottery and she got the black dot.
5) Delacroix of the cross. Graves deaths. Summers happiness, irony. Bentham British philosopher who advocated the separation of church and state. Hutchinson the famous Massachusetts Bay Colony religious pioneer named Anne Hutchinson. She was kicked out of church. Warner old man warns people to not stop a lottery. Martin came from the Roman god Mars.
6) The black box symbolizes who will be scarified. The box is battered because is tradition.
8) I can realize that the author tries to let his readers to open their eyes. The writer let the Tessie repeated "It isn't fair." to reveal writer's reluctance of this lottery.
9) The author reveals everything come from tradition isn't good and people should realize right from bad.
10) During World War II, Hitler killed jewish people and some german did not do anything to prevent it.
Theme 2: believing it will increase the growth of the season, Tessie was the one who got sacrificed.
Theme 3: I believe they count as a serial killer; killing a person every year is a crime.
Theme 4: Every year it happens, people unable to study their life so they can't realize mistakes.
Theme 5: Tessie realized lottery was wrong when she had the black dot.
A List of Horrors:
1) The people in town were acting normal like worrying about didn't miss dinner Instead, they should worry about the person who going to die.
2. Realizing it, normal and they just want to get over it. They sound it like it simple to kill
a person.
3. The disturbing about it, children are innocent and they don't know what really happened.
4. He doesn't know what he was doing, most children think its game.
5. They did not care about who going to die as long it's not them. They are selfish for laughing at the death of one of their parent.
6. He did not care about her, society more important than his wife.
Foreshadowing: the boys gathering stones at the beginning and the black box.
Point of View: third person view
Climax: Tessia got the black dot.
Irony: The sunny day it means happy day, the irony because nothing in the story related to happiness.
They acting like they live in crave, killing people for unrealistic reasons. They think lottery is improving their life.
Study Questions:
1) The people in the town tried to sound normal like is lottery, sunny day, only take few hour to kill someone.
2) No because rich people will do anything to protect themselves and their family.
3) The original purpose is growth of crops.
4) eople believe it will help to improve crop and the growth.
5) Tessie realizes it was wrong after she got the black dot.
6) When she got the black dot, she realized it her turn to die.
7) I believe is act of murder.
8) No
9) The author used black box to represent; the box is death and sunny day irony for happiness
Discussion Questions:
1) Yes, Jackson used foreshadow when the boys gathering stones at the beginning and the black box. He doesn't give a name for the town or the country.
2) Unknown, it did because it could happen anywhere to humanity. Less
3) Some characters believe killing someone will get rain and some character do not believe in lottery. Tessie told Mr. Summer that he didn't give Bill Hutchinson enough time.
4) Examples of a lottery are sunny day, Tessie came late for the lottery and she got the black dot.
5) Delacroix of the cross. Graves deaths. Summers happiness, irony. Bentham British philosopher who advocated the separation of church and state. Hutchinson the famous Massachusetts Bay Colony religious pioneer named Anne Hutchinson. She was kicked out of church. Warner old man warns people to not stop a lottery. Martin came from the Roman god Mars.
6) The black box symbolizes who will be scarified. The box is battered because is tradition.
8) I can realize that the author tries to let his readers to open their eyes. The writer let the Tessie repeated "It isn't fair." to reveal writer's reluctance of this lottery.
9) The author reveals everything come from tradition isn't good and people should realize right from bad.
10) During World War II, Hitler killed jewish people and some german did not do anything to prevent it.