Erica Via Rhiannon Flannery COM 131 – Composition and Literature 30 September 2014 Essay A – Short Story Analysis The Unfair Tradition The lottery‚ a chance to win‚ usually money‚ but that is not the case in Shirley Jackson’s legendary short story “The Lottery.” Winning the lottery in this case presents a conundrum of sorts. The story does not present a big build‚ a huge climax‚ an epiphany‚ or a conclusion. Instead Jackson leaves us astonished in the end with the only climactic event happening
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Setting in “The Lottery” The setting in a story helps to form the story and it makes the characters become more interesting. There are three main types of setting. The first is nature and the outdoors‚ second is objects of human manufacture and construction and the third is cultural conditions and assumptions. These three things help the reader to understand the characters better in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”. “The Lottery” is started out by
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State lotteries have been around for awhile to help build up state revenue. In such things as scratch off instant tickets or daily number drawings. To some these things are evil‚ but to some others who’s lives aren’t the greatest‚ it’s a shimmer of hope that most people don’t have. Now the thing about the lottery is a lot of people don’t win‚ but those few that do could be put into a nice situation that they’ve never been in before. This is the land of freedom and opportunity‚ isn’t that we are giving
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Roles of the Sexes With both stories being relatively short‚ it is easier to compare them to some extent. “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “Finishing Schools” by Maya Angelou‚ both share similar themes amongst them. In the short story “The Lottery”‚ there were many themes but one of the ideas that caught my attention was the topic of sexism. The same issue could be identified in the story “Finishing School” The two characters in both stories were dealing with some sort of sexist problem. In
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In the short story "The Lottery" and "Everyday Use"‚ both writers depicted the bad and ugly side of reenacting and appreciating tradition that lost its validity. In the short story "The Lottery"‚ Shirley Jackson wrote about a tradition of stoning people to death. Use stoning as a punishment is not unearthly and it is practiced in some part of the world. In the case of short story "The Lottery"‚ the tradition of choosing someone using a random selection process or lottery and kill that person by
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and directions. Traditions are beliefs that humans pass down to younger humans. The next generations are meant to follow these traditions‚ and it will always be that way. In “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ a grim tradition of murder is upheld by the town’s people simply because their ancestors did it. “The Lottery” is a dark story about a small town that continues to practice a bizarre superstition only because it is a tradition. Everyone in the town picks a small piece of paper out of a beaten
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Please read the case study entitled Lottery that you find in the reading assignment. Based on what you have learned in this unit‚ answer the following questions: How is the lottery an example of the utilitarian monster? Let’s look at the definition of “utilitarian monster” in the textbook‚ “an individual capable of feeling disproportionately high sensations of pleasure and happiness‚ one who consequently requires many others to sacrifice their happiness in the name of maximizing net happiness” (p
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Blinding Power Of Society Blindly following tradition is something to fear in today’s society. Shirley Jackson’s short story‚ “The Lottery‚” is an ideal representation of this theme because a citizen of their village is sacrificed each year to be the lottery’s “winner‚” and that winner is stoned to death. Comparably‚ in Suzanne Collins’ film The Hunger Games‚ a similar lottery is drawn each year where 24 citizens of Panem must fight to the death to achieve the country’s “winner.” The citizens of both
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Jackson’s "The Lottery" she argues that traditions lead to the destruction of society through desensitizing people to the gratuitous infliction of pain to their fellow villagers. For example‚ the traditions the villagers continue to follow cause them to turn against each other despite having lived with each other for nearly their entire life‚ “Mrs. Graves said‚’ All of us took the same chance.’ ’There is Don and Eva‚’ Mrs. Hutchinson yelled. ’Make them take their chance!’" Since the lottery takes place
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Shirley Jackson‚ author of “The Lottery”‚ choice of character actions‚ setting and plot events contribute to different moods throughout the story. The peaceful mood at the story’s beginning‚ followed by the gradually building tension‚ and the shocking end at the story’s conclusion demonstrate mood changes in the short story. In the beginning of the story‚ the mood is happy and cheerful; this is portrayed through the setting. It states “The morning of June 27 was clear and sunny‚ with the fresh
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