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    “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a short story that presents an annual mandatory lottery where each “head” of the family comes up to draw a paper. The family with the head who picks the paper redraws as a whole‚ and the “lucky winner” gets stoned to death. Villagers in the town originally performed the lottery from the belief that a sacrifice brought better crops to the village. Now‚ however‚ the villagers‚ who have forgotten the purpose‚ continue just because it is a tradition. In the beginning

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    1.In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery‚” a “lottery” is a tradition which takes place each year where the whole town gathers and the man of the house takes a folded slip from a black box. Once each man has a slip‚ they are allowed to unfold the paper‚ the man with a dot on his paper would then have his whole family take part in the process. After the whole family had chosen a slip the person with the dot would be stoned to death. The title is misleading considering the literal meaning of lottery is

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    In 1948 there was a short story published in The New Yorker Magazine By Shirly Jackson. called The Lottery. The Lottery is a fiction story. On June 27‚ it was a clear sunny morning. It is 10am and the village. They gathered for the lottery. There was only 300 people in the town gathering. The lottery takes place at town square by the bank and the post office. The village is big into farming. At 10 o’clock the lottery starts. The head of the household draws by name in alphabetical order. All of the

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    wife: “Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife and forced the slip of paper out of her hand” (3) to force her to show her slip of paper‚ and the children do the same when they laugh after seeing their slip was blank‚ “both beamed and laughed” (3). Jackson also implies that humans can be joking around about something with friends‚ but

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    The Themes of The Lottery and The Rocking Horse Winner In D.H. Lawrence’s The Rocking-Horse Winner and the Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery are different stories about different topics but have a similar ending. Each story teaches a lesson. If everyone where to sit down and read both of these short stories in a critical manner people’s lives would be changed for the better. The Lottery is a short story‚ third-person‚ objective. In short the citizens of this New England village gather at 10:00 AM on

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    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

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    The lottery Addiction April 13‚ 2011 The lottery has seduced many Americans to it harmful empowerment of money that has lead many people to their demise and the more people that play the lottery the more suffering it brings to people and everyone around them. The lottery dates back to 7th century B.C. at the Arab peninsula where most gambling at that time took place where men at the age of seventeen or older would gamble who would win major battles or things that happen in everyday lives

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    Charms and Clovers Charms and Clovers From the very start‚ you get a sense of just what Charms and Clovers is going to deliver to you. There is a winning and very fitting theme running throughout the slot (namely Irish luck)‚ and that is beautifully twinned with the Irish jig music playing in the background. We know what you’re thinking - we’ve all seen far too many Irish luck themed slots of late to care‚ right? Well‚ hold your horses. If you give Charms and Clovers a brief look‚ you may be pleasantly

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    Jayce The Bee: Journey to the Polka-Dot Village© Written & Illustrated by: Calvin Reynolds It was a warm sunny day. Jayce and Dex were full of laughter and cheer while enjoying the spring sunshine. The two friends raced flower-to-flower seeing who could collect the most nectar. Dex noticed an odd look on Jayce’s face. "Hey Jayce‚ what’s wrong?” he asked. “Well‚ spring is almost over‚ and we haven’t seen our friend‚ Lilly” Jayce replied. "I’m sure she’s busy with her chores and plans on visiting

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    In the movie short Geri’s Game we see that the theme is that everyone has two sides of themselves fighting for control. This theme can be seen in the very bringing of the film when the man started to play his game of chess against himself. The side of him that that plays the white side represents his good self. While the side that plays black is the more cocky and evil self. This goes for everyone because we all have a bad self and a good self. But how much we see of each of them varies from person

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