Positive and negative effects of winning the lottery Winning the lottery is something everyone wants. Rarely do people realize that there are also bad effects to having such a large sum of money. A good amount of people that win the lottery are foolish with their money‚ quit their jobs‚ or just don’t know what to do with it. The others that win make smart decisions in either investing their fortune‚ donating it to a good cause‚ or just helping their family be finically stable. Majority of people
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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 of a story? Shirley Jackson decided to write The Lottery in third person while Alice Walker
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Hey! Have you ever just followed to crowd? Well “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “First They Came” by Martin Niemoller talk about that! Now if you’ve never seen “The Lottery” or “First They Came” here is a summary of it. "The Lottery" takes place in the morning of June 27th‚ in a little village between the post office and the bank a lottery was started. Everyone gathered around Mr. Summers with a black box full of paper slips‚ and one of the paper slips has a black dot. Mr. Hutchinson was the
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Authors use many different tools to portray and create some fictional world inside the readers mind such as plot‚ point of view‚ characterization‚ symbolism‚ etc... “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Lottery” are two very melancholy stories each in their own way. Edgar Allen Poe and Shirley Jackson both use excellent techniques to create the peculiar atmosphere and mood of their stories. Edgar Allen Poe is known for using many different artistic elements to create eerie‚ spooky stories. In
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The lottery theme I think that the theme of the lottery is to treat others how you want to be treated. I think that this theme fits into all of this story. The whole story is about this theme. It is important to treat others how you want to be treated. If you don’t then it will come back and bite you in the butt. Just like it did in “The Lottery”. On page number 8 in “The Lottery” Tessie Hutches pleads saying “It isn’t fair!”. We know though that if anyone else had gotten the black dot she would
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Elena Olmedo Professor Schuur Eng. 49 – 81597w 2/20/15 Compare Contrast: “The Lottery” & “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” The striking similarities between‚ “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursela K. Le Guin‚ and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ by far outweigh the differences in the stories; both derive from their presentation of lovely towns with shocking examples of brutal sacrifice. Gradually‚ they illustrate societies that rely on a scapegoat to determine their happiness and prosperity
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it is still followed. Traditions are supposed to be memories‚ and who would want to remember such a gruesome tradition. The murder of Tessie hutchinson was one that never would be forgotten. In “ The Lottery” they had a tradition that was chilling. Of course we are all thinking that “The Lottery” is about someone hitting the jackpot.In this story no one hit the jackpot. Tessie‚ a mother of two‚ was the only person being hit.”Tessie Hutchinson was in the center of a cleared space by now‚and she
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Destructive Traditions Within "The Lottery" Shirley Jackson’s "The Lottery"‚ raises many questions in the back of a reader’s mind towards the destructive yet blind rituals of mankind. "The Lottery" clearly expresses Jackson’s feelings concerning mankind’s evil nature hiding behind traditions and rituals. As her theme‚ she shows how coldness and lack of compassion in people can exhibit in situations regarding tradition and values. Jackson presents the theme of the short story with the use of
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1.In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery‚” a “lottery” is a tradition which takes place each year where the whole town gathers and the man of the house takes a folded slip from a black box. Once each man has a slip‚ they are allowed to unfold the paper‚ the man with a dot on his paper would then have his whole family take part in the process. After the whole family had chosen a slip the person with the dot would be stoned to death. The title is misleading considering the literal meaning of lottery is a
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I woke up this morning and the first thing I did was pick up the newspaper to check my lottery numbers. As I read through the numbers my heart starting beating a little faster cause as I went through the list every number I had read so far was a match to what was on my ticket. Finally I was to the last number and I looked at it and looked at my lottery ticket. I almost passed out cause right there on my lottery ticket were the winning numbers. I jumped for joy and started screaming I won at the top
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