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    The Lottery Perspective on Mortality and Tradition. “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is nothing less than a powerful story about a society that gathers once per year and holds a lottery. But this is not a lottery with a winner; it is a lottery with a loser. “The Lottery” is a chilling story because it depicts a sense of normalcy among the towns’ people when they randomly decided to kill a neighbor by practically just drawing straws. This story really asks the question‚ are rituals always a good

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    actions and behaviours. This can be explained as a character living in a small village might have very different perceptions and points of view compared to a character who lives in a large city. The Lottery‚ by Shirley Jackson‚ is set in a bucolic American village with a population of approximately three hundred people. The villagers’ lives are less hectic with most the men’s revolve around agriculture or coal mining while the women’s revolve around household running and

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    February 8‚ 2013 “Three Sins in Killing Three” The seventeenth century saw the creation of the anti-Petrarchan poem. Its purpose was used in a satirical way to make fun of another popular poetic style of the era‚ the Petrarchan poem. The Petrarchan poem is notorious for glorifying women and portraying them as unrealistic‚ goddess-like creatures; and so the anti-Petrarchan poem did quite the opposite. “The Flea”‚ written by John Doe is a perfect example of an anti-Petrarchan poem. “The Flea” is

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    the reader entire experience? There are three different point of views‚ fist‚ second‚ and third. First person is told from one characters point of view‚ which limits the facts and gives the reader just the one character opinion of the story. Second person treats the reader as the main character in a story. Third person is all knowing‚ it can jump from character to character and give information that only the reader knows about. Does varying amongst these three point of views change the reader opinion

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    people would never do something this awful‚ but we prove these things false in our daily lives. So what makes us different than the town in “The Lottery” or the people behind the attacks in Paris? Nothing is different at all. “The Lottery” and the Paris attacks were acts of violence based on people’s different beliefs. In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” the town where the story takes place‚

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    birthdays. The story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson is about a tradition that is falling apart‚ just like the black box itself. The black box is used as a symbol of death. People are afraid of the black box. When the lottery is not being held‚ the black box is abandoned and not taken care of. Many of the villagers seem like they want to give up the lottery‚ and get rid of the black box. When the people of the village come to the center of the village‚ where the lottery takes place‚ they are all

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    and others to relate to and escape from normal‚ everyday life. As we look at the two stories “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell we will look at the different conflicts that appear‚ the different ways each major character experiences conflict‚ and how these conflicts are eventually resolved. In the short story “The Lottery” a small village of about three-hundred people is depicted. The author describes a quiet friendly little town where everyone knows

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    45 February 10‚ 2014 Characters of “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson The Lottery‚ like most of Shirley Jackson’s other short stories was written in third person. Newsweek states‚ “In her art‚ as in her life‚ Shirley Jackson was an absolute original. She listened to her own voice‚ kept her own counsel‚ and isolated herself from all intellectual and literary currents . . . . She was unique." (Newsweek) In the short story “The Lottery there are three major characters that can be identified with

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    Samuel Boorse Professor Mary Dixon ENGL 102-B05 LUO January 30‚ 2011 Thesis Statement for the short story “The Lottery” The title of the story suggests a positive outcome. But upon reading the first couple of paragraphs‚ we see that a different plot is coming together. Outline 1. Many people gathered. a. Three hundred people b. Small town. 2. Children a. Gathering Stones b. Summertime c. Talked of school and teachers 3. Adults gathering

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    oppressed because of how the government is in control. Dystopian literature shows how the government is in control of the people‚ while the citizens appear to be equal. This paper will include examples from "The Giver”‚ “The Hunger Games”‚ and “The Lottery”. There are a lot of examples of severe oppression in literature. In “The Hunger Games” district 12‚ along with each of the other districts‚ is very oppressed by the controlling government. They are

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