Shirley Jackson …show more content…
First symbols are setting and time. This story is taking place in the small village with 300 people. The lottery happened every year on a warm summer day, and villagers gather in a town square to participate in a lottery. It is harvesting time for farmers, and they are busy doing planting and taxes. And children’s summer vacation started; they are busy to pick stones and piles in one corner of the town square (Jackson). Why do you think author pick June 27 in the Lottery? It has a symbolic meaning “ The summer solstice (June 21) has already passed and the Fourth of July has not yet arrived. June 27 falls halfway between these dates. June 27 bisects the two weeks between these dichotomous dates and may well embody the contrast between superstitious paganism and rational democracy”(Yarmove). Second symbols are stones and black box. Stones are also significant as murder weapons because the first human tools were made of stone. For example, villager use stones to sacrifice peoples life. From the story, the black box keeps on a stool in the middle of Town Square (Jackson). The black box represented culture the manipulation violence. The three legs of the stool are aspects of the Christen Trinity, and they are God the Father, and God the Son, and the Holy Spirits …show more content…
Jackson telling American societies that it is right to follow tradition, but do not effect other peoples life. On the story, person has to sacrifice his own life by playing a lottery. We can see that the lottery has ironic characters that symbolize unique character.
The author is warning us that we do not want to domain one another cultures. The date, the location, and the names in Jackson’s story help to create the holocaust in a story. There are many Americans deaths after the end of World War II and the revelation of the early Nuremburg trials in1945 and 1946, but Jackson shows that Nazi Germany controls the Germany not at the United States of