“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ a human is sacrificed every year to follow and honor an old custom that was stamped ever since the town was established. This year out of a village of 300 people‚ Bill Hutchinson’s family won the lottery‚ and in the second round of the raffle‚ out of all five members of the family‚ Tessie Hutchinson had the card with the black mark meaning she was going to be sacrificed. Shorty after winning‚ Tessie was stoned to death as a sacrifice to the gods. The lottery was conducted
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A lottery has always been described as a prosperous event for anybody who has ever played. However‚ it is not always as flourishing as it may seem. Shirley Jackson‚ the author of an enticing short story called The Lottery‚ proves this by displaying how a different culture views a lottery system much differently than your average person might think. This story is a riveting tale of a small village that plays an annual lottery game every summer by drawing names randomly out of an ancient black box
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The Lottery by Shirley Jackson tells us about the absurdness of blind obedience. The story begins when the people of the village began to gather in the square. Some of the children are gathering stones. The narrator was like making a warning earlier in the story by mentioning the pile of stones and the way the older people distance themselves from it. "They stood together‚ away from the pile of stones in the corner‚ and their jokes were quiet and they smiled rather than laughed
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(Introduction) “The Lottery‚” a short story by Shirley Jackson‚ is about a woman who has been selected for sacrifice by a lottery drawing. Tessie Hutchinson‚ and the rest of her town‚ are unfeeling about how the annual sacrifice affects the selected. However‚ they carry on with their tradition year after year‚ with no intent to make changes to meet modern day morals and needs. “The Lottery” is about blindly following tradition‚ the awareness of how cruel a practice sacrificing is‚ and how one’s mindset
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Jackson’s “The Lottery” The villagers in Jackson’s “The Lottery” are crazy and the story itself is annoying. The people in Jackson’s short story have strange religious beliefs and at times seem heartless. Shirley Jackson adds way too many specific details in the story. All of the unneeded details made this story much longer than it needed to be. Reading Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” made me want to slam my computer into a brick wall. The townspeople in Jackson’s “The Lottery” had an odd religious
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In the short story‚ “the Possibility Of Evil” ‚ Shirley Jackson uses several symbols to tell her storey about Miss. Strangeworth. One symbol she uses is Miss. Strangeworth’s roses. In the second paragraph of the short story‚ the author describes how Miss.Strangeworth’s admires her flowers. To her‚ they aren’t just “anything.” To her‚ the roses are like her children. Another symbol she uses is her letters whom were locked. Taking into consideration that she did not only write rude letters and mail
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The theme for the story is the lack of communication it was slowly rising more and more in the story “Charles” by Shirley Jackson. Shirley Jackson teaches her readers that lack of communication‚ can cause people to be able to lie easier‚ and she shows this lesson through Foreshadowing‚ and leaving the author with something to think of. First thing the story perceived through the lack of communications. Because his mother seems to be busy asking about Charles she forgets to ask about her son
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In Shirley Jackson’s "The Lottery" she argues that traditions lead to the destruction of society through desensitizing people to the gratuitous infliction of pain to their fellow villagers. For example‚ the traditions the villagers continue to follow cause them to turn against each other despite having lived with each other for nearly their entire life‚ “Mrs. Graves said‚’ All of us took the same chance.’ ’There is Don and Eva‚’ Mrs. Hutchinson yelled. ’Make them take their chance!’" Since the lottery
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the surface may not always be what it really is. Things are not always what they seem. According to Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery‚ small town America is a place of traditional gender roles and where people refuse to change. This refusal to change results in the concept
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Shirley Jackson’s‚ "The Lottery" concerns a small town’s annual lottery drawing and the grim circumstances that ensue. In this short but disturbingly profound piece of work‚ Shirley Jackson communicates to the reader the theme of scapegoatism along with its implications concerning traditions. In the village where this lottery takes place‚ we find many familiar elements: a post office‚ a grocery store‚ schools and a coal mine. In this village‚ Mr. Summers owns the coal mine‚ so his business has made
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