Queenie Chen 11/28/2012 If I Win the Lottery When I was a little kid‚ I always day dreaming that if I were born in a rich family‚ and I was treated like a princess. How wonderful is that! Or in one day‚ if I win the lottery for five millions what am I going to do with my money? If I win five million dollars‚ the first thing I would do is to buy a big and comfortable single house for my family. And ask them to quit their job. It is because my parents have been working for so many years. I noticed
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The “Lottery” is about is about how a women or a girl whatever you want to call her‚ she won the lottery and people didn’t think it was fair so they stoned her to death. A good thing to think about in life is to treat people the way you wanted to be treated. That is always a good thing to remember. In the story people like to be treated with respect they don’t like to be treated like “Trash” as people say. In the story is people are being disrespectful to one another one of the other people would
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One of these stories is called “The Lottery” which is about a village where they perform extremely outdated and unethical traditions where whoever wins ‘the lottery’ will be stoned to death. Everybody has to participate and it is such an old tradition that bystanders have accepted the culture so deeply into their lives that they will not object or act against ‘the lottery’.
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Myth- The lottery is a gate way to financial independence and prosperity. But the real truth is that is it a tax on the poor or to anyone who plays it frequently. It can not only lead to addiction but it costs Americans hundreds or even thousands of dollars just to have a chance at winning. Our minds cannot naturally cope with the reward we will get if we win. Leading to over spending and addiction‚ especially if the buyer feels poor. They are twice as likely to buy more lottery tickets than
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Week 11: “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson 1. The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny‚ with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. Discuss the purpose of the exposition. The exposition’s purpose could be to emphasize the fact that it’s a nice morning‚ because the lottery is suppose to be a wonderful and pleasant day for everyone. This exposition may want to underline the fact that it’s a very special day. The "blossoming"
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Imagine winning the lottery but instead of some kind of monetary reward‚ winning causes you to lose your life! Well in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” that is exactly what happens to the characters‚ at first everything appears like just another normal mundane village but gradually things take a much darker turn as the lottery persist until the unlucky fellow wins. After being announced victorious the victors family (including the victor himself) have a much smaller lottery and whoever wins that is
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An Imperfect Society Shirley Jackson wrote “The Lottery” in 1948 with a purpose in mind. Upon hearing the title‚ many readers think about a lottery in people want to win due to the fact that they could win millions of dollars. However‚ this is not the case in Jackson’s version where the lottery is one in which the winner is stoned to death. Jackson’s focus in this story is that society is flawed‚ imperfect‚ and sometimes stuck in the past. She declared that her purpose was “to shock
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Humanity in “The Lottery” In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” there are many themes to pick up on‚ however the one that seems to be the most important is the theme of humanity. In this short story many things burst out at the reader but the theme of humanity is one that the reader must be looking for. The loss of humanity is apparent in the story because of the activities they are acting upon‚ their feelings of others‚ and the connation in which they speak. First and forth most‚ the lottery in which
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Pointless Violence Under a Veil of Tradition in “The Lottery”: A Discovery Via the Tools of Irony and Symbolism Within the Framework of Formalism The approach to literary criticism known as Formalism focuses on the literary text itself as the source for meaning‚ and deems the text as the only context a critic should turn to for research. It is a style of criticism that places emphasis on the literary tools and techniques in a text‚ apart from a text’s or authors historical context. The key to
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When you think about a lottery you automatically think‚ "Oh will they win money or a gift?" Well‚ in the story "The lottery" by Shirley Jackson it was completely the opposite of winning something. The author provoked lots of suspense and tension but wasn’t the suspense you get when you are excited it’s a scary suspense that builds up the tension. And why you suppose? Well‚ in this story the "lottery" there wasn’t any winning of money or a gift‚ this story was about a sacrifice the people of the village
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