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    The story “The Lottery” has a theme just as any other great story. The author used many different aspects through the story to make one larger theme overall. The theme of this story‚ is about how the world is full on pointless violence that leads nowhere‚ as well as how current times seem to still follow the bible. These aspects include the characters‚ imagery‚ as well as various symbols. This story tends to refer to the bible quite often. One example of the story referring to the bible

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    Amontillado” and “The Lottery” are two very melancholy stories each in their own way. Edgar Allen Poe and Shirley Jackson both use excellent techniques to create the peculiar atmosphere and mood of their stories. Edgar Allen Poe is known for using many different artistic elements to create eerie‚ spooky stories. In “The Cask of Amontillado‚” Poe uses first person point of view to let the reader know how proud the narrator‚ Montresor‚ is with his past impunitistic murders. “I must not only punish

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    event‚ which has been named the lottery. The lottery is not like the typical lottery where one is a winner of money or something good but is one in which a person in the village is randomly drawn from a black box‚ and then violently stoned by friends and family. In "The Lottery‚" Shirley Jackson illustrates how people can perform cruel acts towards others in the acceptance of tradition‚ even when they know it’s wrong. Some

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    In the last couple years airplane tickets have skyrocketed. The common question is: Why do airplane tickets fluctuate so much? And there are actually lots of reasons‚ such as oil prices‚ supply and demand‚ taxes‚ and more. There are ways to lower prices for tickets‚ but overall‚ they are very expensive‚ and I think that they should be less. Airplane tickets have gone up for a number of reasons. In the article Why your Airplane ticket is so expensive nowadays the author explains how there are

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    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

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    The short story‚ "The Lottery‚" by Shirley Jackson is one pf the most shocking stories I have ever read. It caused controversy when it was published in a New York newspaper and for good reason. The ending is very unsettling and I would even categorize it as a horror story. The picture the story paints prepares you for the exact opposite of what actually happens‚ making this a confusing‚ yet unforgettable story. It is hard to figure out what the message is in this story. Starting from the beginning

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    The Meal Ticket By Leslie Davis My call to write came at an early age. At the time I was far too young to understand how my camp letters home would someday prove to be one of my earliest and truest forms of self-expression. Camp Desoto was a month long girls camp situated high in the Rocky Mountains of Tennessee. On a hot June Saturday in 1973‚ with me riding alone in the back seat‚ my parents took the three hour drive up from Atlanta to drop me off for the summer. Other than holiday

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    Tradition The village lottery culminates in a violent murder each year‚ a bizarre ritual that suggests how dangerous tradition can be when people follow it blindly. Before we know what kind of lottery they’re conducting‚ the villagers and their preparations seem harmless‚ even quaint: they’ve appointed a rather pathetic man to lead the lottery‚ and children run about gathering stones in the town square. Everyone is seems preoccupied with a funny-looking black box‚ and the lottery consists of little

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    In the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson many of the beliefs in the story are giving the lottery a bad meaning. In this story The Lottery is a huge event of stoning winners of the lottery. Many of the lottery winners think maybe the drawings are very unfair. Normally the first thing that comes to a persons mind when they think about the lottery is a large sum of money‚ in the story “The Lottery” it is not the same. This story makes the readers mind wonder and see two aspects of the story

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    Steven Heald Mrs. Mills ENC1102 2.18.13 Feminism in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” Modern criticism of Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery has focused almost exclusively on the issues of feminism and gender roles yet some recent reviews tend to classify the writing as feminist literature. They claim the story highlights the negative aspects of patriarchal societies through the telling of the lottery ritual. However many overlook the roles that the women play throughout this story. The purpose

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