The Lottery is a short story written by Shirley Jackson. In the story‚ its use multiple symbol. According to the story‚” the black box grew shabbier each year…” (1). When you think of black‚ you think about evil or death. So‚ the black box can be a symbol between life or death for each and every person. Another quote state‚ “it had a black spot on it…” (6). The black spot on the paper can show a symbol for the family been marked for death. Also‚ when you pull a piece of paper out the box its can
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I’m going to talk about if I won the lottery. In the first place‚ If I won the lottery‚ I would study and improve my English to an excellent level. After that‚ I would like to travel all over the world and choose some interesting places such as Venice‚ New York ‚Japan‚ or New Zealand‚ to live there two or three years. Those are my favourite places. Living in those places would give the change to make many friends. On the other hand‚ when I get old‚ I would go back to my country and I would purchase
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American Literature1900-1945 Innovative Techniques in The Sound and the Fury The Sound and the Fury has been seen as an "example par excellence of modernist American fiction" (Cohen). Its publication represented a watershed in American literature as it introduced several modernist techniques among which: the destruction of chronological order‚ the division of the perspectives‚ the increased number of narrators‚ the free association technique‚ the stream of consciousness. I have selected
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Dakota Dunn Response paper for The Lottery ENGL 1020 24 April‚ 2014 Why do humans have an obsession with death and pain? Looking back‚ history is littered with stories of people being murdered in cruel ways. Think back to Nero‚ Emperor of Rome. Or remember the stories of the Catholic Inquisition. In more recent years‚ people hear stories of torture and killing in China and the Middle East. Even the bombing of the Boston marathon falls under these tragedies. There is no doubt that humans
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I would object to the idea of “The Survival Lottery”. The proposal of the survival lottery mainly centres on the claim that there is no difference between killing and letting die‚ and that leaving Y and Z to die without any interventions would be the same as murdering them. Thus‚ instead of killing both Y and Z‚ the doctor should kill A‚ a third-party‚ and save both Y and Z’s lives‚ because such action would result in a total of one death instead of two. Since it would be begging the question to
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Interpretation of Literature 4/23/2014 Topic 2 – Othering Shirley Jackson’s story‚ “The Lottery”‚ takes place on June 27th in a very small village of about only 300 people. This day is what they call the day of the lottery‚ hence the title. The Lottery is a tradition they have done for years‚ where the entire village gathers in the square‚ wait for their name to be called‚ which they then pick a small piece of paper from a black box‚ and patiently wait for everyone to pick their piece of paper
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the short story‚ “The Lottery”‚ by Shirley Jackson and the movie‚ “The Village”‚ directed by M. Night Shyamalan‚ both the short story and the film employ the theme of traditions and rituals to comment on the danger of blindly conforming‚ the different attitude in performing the tradition and how unfairness is parallel to the wellbeing of the community. Both the short story and the movie share the ideology of blindly believing and conforming to traditions. In “the Lottery”‚an annual ritual consisting
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Sherwood Anderson’s collection of short stories‚ Winesburg‚ Ohio‚ follows the lives of residents in a small made up town in Ohio called Winesburg. The characters of each story all concern themselves with a truth‚ or a principle of reality‚ which effects the way in which they live their lives. There are clear connections in Anderson’s book of short stories that directly relate to the way he conducted his life. Although not an autobiography‚ Anderson relates his childhood and adulthood in the truths
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In many stories‚ settings are constructed to help build the mood and to foreshadow of things to come. "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson is a story in which the setting sets up the reader to think of positive outcomes. However‚ this description of the setting foreshadows exactly the opposite of what is to come. In addition‚ the theme that we learn of at the end leads us to think of where the sanity of some human beings lies. The story begins with the establishment of the setting. To begin‚ Shirley
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