Period 8 09/21/14 The Lottery Essay The author Shirley Jackson was the writer of this book the Lottery. Shirley was born on 1916 in San Francisco‚ California. Shirley had begun writing when she was a teenager one of the books written by her was the Lottery. The Lottery is about a tradition that this town upholds they would gather to conduct their annual lottery. The Lottery has a long history in this and surrounding towns. This Lottery is not just any Lottery is something that people would
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Shirley Jackson’s‚ “The Lottery”‚ clearly expresses her feelings concerning traditional rituals through her story. It opens the eyes of readers to properly classify and question some of today’s traditions as cruel‚ and allows room to foretell the outcome of these unusual traditions. “The Lottery” is a short story that records the annual sacrifice ceremony of a fictional small town. It is a detailed narrative of the selection of the person to be sacrificed‚ a
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arrogation‚ executed for a religious purpose‚ a cult‚ or as a ritual to please their gods in which they believe in. In the story‚ The Lottery by Shirley Jackson she introduces us to a luck-of-the-draw conformity among the villagers in the story. Jackson’s reveals that humans commit barbaric genocides by the peer pressure and be subsequent to tradition. The lottery is held in June during the beautiful summer in order to please the gods to allow bountiful harvest; therefore‚ one pure innocent human
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the short story “The Lottery” also written by Shirley Jackson. This story is about a village that is subject to around 300 villagers that have a certain tradition which is a special type of “lottery” that happens every year; the “winner” is to be stoned to death by their fellow neighbours. Jackson also stresses the importance of human nature‚ which is that humans are conditioned to do what is taught since birth. Jackson also uses Ritualistic features that are not just the lottery itself but actions
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they feel that it’s the right way to handle the situation and will ultimately result in the best outcome. Others shoulder their obligations due to peer pressure or in some cases‚ by the enforcement of the law. In both New York Times articles‚ “Four-Legged Reason to Keep It Together” written by Timothy Braun and “Would Our Two New Lives Include a Third?” written by Rhonda Kaysen. The main characters in both stories ultimately decided to shoulder the responsibility of taking on a dependent in their life
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full-fledged life. According to the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs the two highest steps of the human development – are esteem’s needs and self-actualization. These two steps are leaving behind the other three steps - biological and physical‚ safety‚ belongingness and love needs. These first three steps can be achieved even without spending any time on the education. But it is clear that the highest steps in the hierarchy - esteem’s needs and self-actualization can only be achieved by the means of
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“The Lottery (1948)” by Shirley Jackson‚ is a short story about an annual lottery taking place in a small New England town. Every year the lottery is held and the winner of the lottery is then promptly stoned to death. This lottery has been a long held tradition in this small town and it is a tradition that everyone in the town must take part in. The man in charge of the lottery drawing‚ Mr. Summers‚ calls each male head of household forward to an ominous looking black box sitting atop a three legged
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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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