Summary:The Lottery By Shirley Jackson
Summary:The Lottery By Shirley Jackson
On 27th of june,nice summer day, at 10 oclock the villagers gathered
In the square for town lottery.
Some towns already quit lotteries,
In other towns the lottery takes two days because of the big population but in this town, where the population doesn't exceeds 300 people, the whole lottery took less then two hours. the children that were on summer vacation assembled first.
The boys gathered stones and made a pile of them in the corner of the square.
Soon the other family members began to gather.
The lottery was conducted by a coal businessman,Mr.Summers that managed also for other civic activities.
He put the black, old lottery box on the stool which was in the centre of the square and which was brought by Mr. Graves , the postmaster.
This box had been put into use even before the oldest man if the town.,was born, but no one wanted to suit it with a new one, because they believed that it made of some pieces of the original box,and they wanted to stay loyal to their tradition.
Summers began to stir the papers through with his hand.
Once they used chips of wood for the lottery, but now when the population bigger then at the past,they use slips of paper that fit more easily into the black box.
The night before the lottery, the box was hidden by Mr. Summers, in his coal company and it was locked till the begining of the lottery.
Before the opening declaration of the lottry, he made lists of each family members in the town.
Mrs. Hutchinson joined to her family which was in the suqare, too late,
Because she forgot that it was a day of the lottery, and figured out that it was this day only when she saw that her children, like her husband weren't at home.
Before beggining of the lottery Mr. Summers asked who draws for dunbar-resident of the villige who didn't come because his broken leg,and his wife said that she draws for him and not her son that toob young for it.
Mr, Summers reminded everyone of the
On 27th of june,nice summer day, at 10 oclock the villagers gathered
In the square for town lottery.
Some towns already quit lotteries,
In other towns the lottery takes two days because of the big population but in this town, where the population doesn't exceeds 300 people, the whole lottery took less then two hours. the children that were on summer vacation assembled first.
The boys gathered stones and made a pile of them in the corner of the square.
Soon the other family members began to gather.
The lottery was conducted by a coal businessman,Mr.Summers that managed also for other civic activities.
He put the black, old lottery box on the stool which was in the centre of the square and which was brought by Mr. Graves , the postmaster.
This box had been put into use even before the oldest man if the town.,was born, but no one wanted to suit it with a new one, because they believed that it made of some pieces of the original box,and they wanted to stay loyal to their tradition.
Summers began to stir the papers through with his hand.
Once they used chips of wood for the lottery, but now when the population bigger then at the past,they use slips of paper that fit more easily into the black box.
The night before the lottery, the box was hidden by Mr. Summers, in his coal company and it was locked till the begining of the lottery.
Before the opening declaration of the lottry, he made lists of each family members in the town.
Mrs. Hutchinson joined to her family which was in the suqare, too late,
Because she forgot that it was a day of the lottery, and figured out that it was this day only when she saw that her children, like her husband weren't at home.
Before beggining of the lottery Mr. Summers asked who draws for dunbar-resident of the villige who didn't come because his broken leg,and his wife said that she draws for him and not her son that toob young for it.
Mr, Summers reminded everyone of the