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    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 of a story? Shirley Jackson decided to write The Lottery in third person while Alice Walker

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    The Lottery is a short story written by Shirley Jackson. This story takes place in a small town located in the US. This story happened on 27 June at10 am in the morning. It is a warm and bright day. It is a perfect day to celebrate the lottery‚ which is the huge annual ceremony for this town. All the citizen joins together in the town square to rejoice this event. The children are playing on the plaza and gathering the stones‚ they look exciting and anxiously. It seems to be a common celebration

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    In the last couple years airplane tickets have skyrocketed. The common question is: Why do airplane tickets fluctuate so much? And there are actually lots of reasons‚ such as oil prices‚ supply and demand‚ taxes‚ and more. There are ways to lower prices for tickets‚ but overall‚ they are very expensive‚ and I think that they should be less. Airplane tickets have gone up for a number of reasons. In the article Why your Airplane ticket is so expensive nowadays the author explains how there are

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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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    Predicting “The Lottery“ “The Lottery” may be somewhat deceiving from it’s title and can lead you in the wrong direction if you are not careful to notice the foreshadowing signs that is typical in Shirley Jackson’s stories. In “The Lottery” she gives two signs that are hidden deep into words that you‚ the reader‚ have to break up. She uses actions by her characters‚ and characters names. She leaves one more clue that is not in the story‚ but that fills her own life. At the beginning when the

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    Unexpected Symbolic Outcome of "The Lottery" Violence and human cruelty are two horrible things that occurred a long time ago and continue to be an ongoing issue in our society today. Everyone has either experienced‚ been apart of‚ or witnessed these awful acts at least once in their lifetime. Author Shirley Jackson coveys both violence and human cruelty in her well known short story "The Lottery". "Jackson’s The Lottery" states‚ "The date of the lottery‚ its location‚ and the symbolic or ironic

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    The lottery by Shirley Jackson‚ takes place in a flourishing small town‚ that has a tradition of a lottery once a year. The lottery has been practiced for as long as the citizens could remember‚ they do not remember why or how it came to be‚ but that it is tradition. Shirley Jackson uses symbolism in actions‚ names‚ and objects to tell the underlying meaning of the lottery. The lottery begins with what seems like the most innocent of actions‚ children playing‚ but foreshadows the evil and satanic

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    The Ritual of “The Lottery” It is often said that there is strength in numbers. While it is true that a large group of people has more power than an individual‚ a single person within a large group will almost always conform in some way. This weakens the individual and leads to fewer new ideas in order to maintain group status and agreement. Many times‚ rituals or ideas are allowed and accepted just because they are favored by a majority or have been part of that society for so long that they

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    the real image surrounding life. In Shirley Jackson’s story‚ “The Lottery”‚ this small quant town holds a lottery every year‚ in which the winner or loser‚ in this case‚ are put to death by their own neighbors in a public stoning. The people advocate this tradition to show social structure within the town‚ but to grasp any comprehension for a true meaning‚ reading between the lines of the story is a must. This story‚ “The Lottery”‚ show the traditions of this town are taken way too far. Additionally

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    Compare and Contrast: The Hunger Games vs. “The Lottery” The Hunger Games and “The Lottery” are two different stories that have similarities and differences. Depending on the plots and story lines of both they might have more similarities than differences or more differences than similarities. Breaking it up into three different topics is very helpful when comparing and contrasting these two stories. There are three aspects that are going to be covered. Aspect one is a comparison between both of

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