Situational Reaction We interact with people every day. In order to find out if a person is someone of interest‚ we test them. We observe their reactions to situations to make this determination. As we read a story‚ the same concept is used to determine our interest in it ’scharacters. The main character in Jack London ’s‚ "To Build a Fire‚" is not given a name but we are told he is a man. The story is set in the Klondike and he has venturedoff from his companions in search of future prospects
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The Lottery By: Shirley Jackson 1. The people of the town are holding lottery tickets because they are waiting for an event to take place on this specific a day. "(The people of the village began to gather in the square‚ between the here were so many people post office and the bank‚ around ten o’ clock; in some towns there were so many people that the lottery took two days and had to be started in June 2nd)." 2. 3. The writing style of the story is a thriller‚ because of the suspense
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instant millions. The lottery is a summer drawing in a small town that consists of the townspeople gathering in a center place of the town and some piling up stones. The Hutchinson father won the lottery on this specific day but the wife fought for a redraw of the lottery. When the winner is determined it is the wife‚ Tessie Hutchinson. She is then stoned to death as a scapegoating tradition of the town. In the short story‚ the lottery‚ by Shirley Jackson‚ the author uses multiple levels of meaning within
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in someway. In The Lottery‚ the Hutchinson’s family receives the slip of paper with a black dot. Therefore the whole family has to draw slips of paper to see who would be choicen for the sacrifice. It happen that the mother in the family‚ Tessie Hutchinson receives the black dot and will be sacrificed in this years lottery to receive good crops for the community. After she finds out that she is the one with the black dot in her family she immediately protests coming up with whatever she can think
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Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is a story of a town whose citizens are required to participate in an annual “lottery”. We soon find out‚ however‚ that unlike most lotteries‚ this is not a lottery that one hopes to win. With her ingenious use of setting‚ characters‚ themes‚ she creates a suspenseful and exciting tale that left me in awe when I finally put it down. The setting of Jackson’s story is a very deceptive one‚ and makes us‚ as readers‚ wonder where and when this story takes place. She
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After reading the short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson‚ I think the most important theme was Traditions and Customs. In this short story‚ the village that the story takes place in has a tradition every year called the lottery. In this tradition‚ one person is picked out of the village and is given a stoning‚ a punishment where people take rocks and throw them at you until you die. This tradition has been going on so long that the villagers cannot remember when it started. Also in this tradition
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what is unsettling about the story. Most of us would think of the murderous mob as the protagonist‚ the danger. However‚ in this story we are left questioning the character of Tessie Hutchinson‚ who is chosen by lottery to be sacrificed‚ for her inability to quietly‚ and with dignity‚ accept her death sentence. Tessie becomes the bane of the story when she‚ for the first time ever in her own life‚ questions the legitimacy of the system. In “The Lottery” harvest symbols are used to draw a picture
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cheerfulness hiding evil and corruption. Bill and Davy Hutchinson: Betrayers. The narrator says‚ "Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife and forced the slip of paper out of her hand. It had a black spot on it‚ the black spot Mr. Summers had made the night before with the heavy pencil in the coal company office. Bill Hutchinson held it up‚ and there was a stir in the crowd." As for Davy‚ he has pebbles(n.小卵石) ready to throw at his mother. Hutchinson was the name of an official who lodged a complaint against
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The story of “The Lottery”‚ written by Shirley Jackson is very different in terms of the ways you and I may see the lottery today. The lottery today is looked at as fun‚ entertaining and almost as a type of recreation for many Americans but not in this short story. The lottery in this story is the total opposite of the way we view it today. It does not deal with entertainment but it deals with your life literally‚ almost as if they are playing Russian roulette. But this all seems like a normal everyday
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The poem “Bitch” by Carolyn Kizer fits the critical theory deconstruction because the poem has two conversations going on in one poem. Kizer also uses words as though she is talking about a dog but instead it is a woman that was hurt by that significant other. The woman does not want to show her anger towards the ex lover so she tries to have a nice and polite conversation. The line “As the bitch starts to bark hysterically” meaning that she’s getting more and more furious inside as she talks to
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