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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 LOTTERY A short fictional story published by Shirley Jackson The Lottery was originally published in the magazine The New Yorker in 1948. On one clear sunny morning in a village of 300 it was the day of June 27‚ The Lottery Day. It was held at the town square by the post office and the bank. This village was a farming village. The time they held this was anytime they wanted. On this special day people gather around the town square and the kids collect rocks. During this day Graves and Summers

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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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    11/3/2012 The Lottery Shirley Jackson’s "The Lottery" is a story of a small town whose citizens are required to participate in a yearly "lottery". The reader soon finds‚ however‚ that unlike most lotteries this is not a lottery that you hope to win. Although it is not fairly clear who the main character of "The Lottery" is we learn that Tessie Hutchinson ends up being the dynamic character of the story. When she finds out that her husband‚ Bill Hutchinson‚ is the winner of this lottery she begins

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    National Lottery Referendum The Islands of the Bahamas‚ located just southeast of Florida is a chain of islands that make up a tiny yet proud country in the Caribbean. Currently the government of the Bahamas‚ based on the British parliamentary system‚ is debating on the legalization of a national lottery for the country. Since the Bahamas is a predominantly Christian country‚ gambling is illegal for local citizens since it is considered a sin in The Bible. The questions of a national lottery and/or

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    Lottery Winnings – Looks Can Be Deceptive! State-sponsored lotteries are extremely popular and highly successful methods by which state governments in many countries raise much needed funds for financing public expenses‚ especially education. In Michigan alone‚ during the year 2000‚ Michigan Lottery reported annual sales of $1.69 billion in fiscal 2000‚ and generated $618.5 million in net revenue for the state School Aid Fund‚ supporting public education (K-12) programs throughout the state. Retailers

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    Mrs. Gonyo – room G3 AP Literature – Socratic seminar for “The Lottery” Discussion questions Comments to move the conversation along: a. What question are we trying to answer? Why? b. Could you give me an example or a metaphor to explain that? c. Can you find that in the text? Where does the reading support you? d. What are you assuming in that argument? e. But what about...? (That seems at odds with what we said before‚ what the author said here‚ etc.) f. How does this relate to... (what

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    Ana Bruges “The lottery” The Lottery‚ a short story written by Shirley Jackson explains two of the most important aspects of humanity: traditions and rituals. The story takes place in a small town in New England where every year a lottery is held‚ most people would relate lottery to wining cash. In this lottery one person will be randomly choose to be stoned to death by the people in the village including their own family members. The lottery has been practiced for over seventy years by the townspeople

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    black box used for the lottery represents the whole tradition of conducting lottery. It was “made with some pieces of the box that had preceded it‚” and it “grew shabbier each year.” Mr. Summers‚ who conducted the lottery‚ talked about making a new box‚ “but every year the subject was allowed to fade off without anything’s being done‚” because “no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box.” However‚ the original tool used for the lottery was lost long ago; Mr.

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