“The Lottery” – by Shirley Jackson Name:_____________________________ ELA 10 Questions From the context of the story‚ who controls the town? Explain. Mr. Summers‚ Mr. Graves and Mr. Martin are the leaders of the town. Because‚ in the story‚ Mr. Summers owns the village’s largest business and also the major of the town. Mr. Summers has more “time and energy to devote to civic activities.” It indicates that he has money and leisure. Mr. Graves is the government official; the
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tradition followed so closely? Many are for religious or family reasons‚ but how many traditions are followed blindly? What deems a tradition‚ or anything the crowd does‚ as morally acceptable? The themes of each story‚ Young Goodman Brown and The Lottery‚ deal with flaws in following the crowd. Young Goodman Brown is a young man who fits his name. He is innocent and believes the community is as harmless as they appear. However his innocence has blinded him to the reality of the dark world. Brown’s
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Double Entry Journals Quotes/Summary of Event | My Thinking‚ Questions‚ Connections & Reactions | Pg. 8 “SI MONUMENTUM REQUIRIS CIRCUMSPICE” | I know this language is Latin. In the forward it is used in a way to honor educators. I think this might say “A monument that requires searching”Online it says‚ “if you seek his monument‚ look around”. (Merriam Webster). It seems similar to what I thought it said originally. I wasn’t surprised that it was along the lines of looking for something because
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LEARNING JOURNAL This Learning was written over a 5 week period to take notes of events‚tasks I have dealt with. Week 1(week ending 8th Jan 2010) • It’s my first job for 2010. I arrive at work at approximately 7:35am – to start my first day of training. • I was told initially that I would work from 8am-3pm‚ however the Hotel General Manager told me that I have to train till 5pm. The hotel had a rather quiet week and I felt that considering everyone works shift‚ I should’ve been
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Entry II: Day 1 Today’s events have left me thinking a bit. After we got back from exploring the island‚ Ralph assembled another meeting to spread our new discoveries. We realized everyone would not stop talking at once‚ so Ralph decided that whoever holds the conch has the right to talk and can only be interrupted by Ralph himself. Great idea at first‚ until that fat‚ useless oaf Piggy took it. He wouldn’t stop worrying and whining about getting rescued. Ralph said it himself‚ his dad’s a navy
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Literary Analysis on Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson bewildered the world when her short story “The Lottery” was published in The New Yorker magazine. The piece got a great deal of negative reaction for its shocking and gruesome story. Readers didn’t know what or why Shirley Jackson wrote this piece. She said she wanted to show the story with a “graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.” She wrote a piece about a town that continues
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When one thinks of a lottery‚ they imagine winning a large sum of money. Shirley Jackson uses the setting in The Lottery to foreshadow an ironic ending. The peaceful and tranquil town described in this story has an annual lottery‚ and you can’t possibly guess what the "prize" is The author foreshadows an ironic ending at the very beginning by establishing a cheerful setting. The story occurs "around ten o’clock" on June twenty-seventh‚ a time of day that is very bright and joyous and a time
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The Lottery Shirley Jackson is a master of suspense. She starts the story The Lottery off by describing what seems to be a normal summers day in an average village. This gives the reader a false sense of security which quickly turns into a sense of horror by the end of the story. Jackson uses the elements of a short story‚ atmosphere‚ plot and characters to create a sense of horror. One of the five elements of a short story that Jackson uses to create a sense of horror is atmosphere. Jackson
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All three types of literature are examples of the word genre. Genre can be used as a broad term to identify certain literary categories such as story‚ poem‚ or play. It can also be used for more specific categorization under a broad term. With these stories we have examples from the genre of satire‚ which can be further broken down into the genres story‚ poem‚ or play. All three types of literature are examples of imagination. From our reading we know that imagination is defined as “The human power
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Martin Luther King Jr. Use of Figurative Language Is the life and accomplishments of Martin Luther King Jr. being forgotten? If you were to sit down and to ask most students about Martin Luther and what he did‚ they wouldn’t be able to reveal his true achievements that influenced so many people during that time. Before we started going on about this assignment in class‚ I was in the same boat as those other students. Yes I have learned a little here and there about Martin Luther in Elementary
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