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    ENGL 102 “Young Goodman Brown” vs. “The Lottery” ENGL 102 Literatures and Composition Fall D 2012 Ruby Alexander L24687716 MLA Outline ‘The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ both uses symbols to tell stories. In “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson used names to stress the theme of the story but in “Young Goodman Brown” Hawthorne uses name to in rich the theme of the stories. Both stories use symbols to show a parallel of good and evil

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    Violence and Human Nature in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson shows us in her short story “The Lottery” that violence is a part of human nature‚ and that it can be disguised in many ways. She conveys this using many different elements . Some of the ways she demonstrates the violence in human nature are particular events in the plot‚ ironic twists‚ foreshadowing‚ character development (or lack of it)‚ and symbolism. Many events in the plot of the short story convey the theme of

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    In “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson uses foreshadowing to clue at what happens at the end of the story which is‚ Mrs.Hutchinson gets stoned. For example‚ Shirley Jackson starts to give us little hints throughout the story. For instance‚ when the town people were getting ready for the lottery‚“Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones.”(Jackson) This quotation displays that Bobby Martin was using foreshadowing to hint at what the lottery really was. The part where Bobby Martin stocked

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    embedded into every society and can have a drastic impact on the way of life within those cultures. In Shirley Jackson’s‚ "The Lottery‚" Jackson depicts a tradition on which life was founded on within a culture. In this particular society‚ a dominant ritual‚ passed down throughout many generations‚ continues to be the driving force of actions within the society. This lottery consists of an annual ritual in which every family in the village puts their name into a black box and a single name is drawn

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    advancement throughout human history. Events like the Holocaust in the 1900s‚ segregation of white and blacks during the mid-1900s‚ and the denial of women’s civil rights in the 1900s all serve as prime consequences of humans not willing to change. In “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ she use the black battered box as a way to illustrate that human kind must continue to evolve and not always conform to unethical traditions. This is important because if the town members evaluated their beliefs and did not conform

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    “The lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a short story. The story “The lottery” is about these people that keep their “tradition” “The lottery” is about murder. They use “The lottery” as a way to keep their population down and not grow to big. They Are also crazy cause they stone people to death and just like to watch people in pain. In “The Lottery”‚ Shirley Jackson uses symbolism to illustrates the themes of tone mood and symbolism which will help you better understand the story. One literary device

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    The short stories “The Third Wish” written by Joan Aiken and “Those Three Wishes” written by Judith Gorog share the main similarity of having a three wishes motif. These two stories may share a similar motif‚ but they differ in several important aspects. “The Third Wish” and “Those Three Wishes” differ in the way the story is told. Also‚ “The Third Wish” and “Those Three Wishes” are different‚ because they use the three wishes motif in different ways. Last but not least‚ the stories have a different

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    Analysis of Shirley Jackson’s: “The Lottery” by Cary Sanders English 1320-Section 15 Dr. J. Drummond April 2 ‚ 2015 Sanders i Outline Thesis Statement: People will often unquestionably follow tradition and the crowd without ever stopping to think about why they are doing what they are doing. I. Plot A. Summer Time B. Small Town II. Characters III. Theme of Story A. Blind Tradition B. Unquestioning Allegiance IV. Is it not ironic? A. Lottery equals death? B. Think before

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    In her story "The Lottery"‚ Shirley Jackson expresses her emotions towards man ’s carelessness and violent practices of traditions. This is shown when the lottery takes place in the story and the "winner" is stoned to death to help crop growth in the village. Shirley Jackson uses symbolism to represent a sequence of events that occur throughout the story. She uses symbolism in the characters ’ names‚ the black box‚ and the lottery itself. Symbolism is exposed in "The Lottery" in some of the characters

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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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