Dylan Provozell's The Lottery

According to Dylan Prvozell’s presentation “Shirley Jackson”, Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco, California on December 14, 1916, but she was raised in Burlingame, California. When she was seventeen she attended the University of Rochester in New York, and while there she figured out that the classes she took did not fit her capabilities so transferred to Syracuse. An interesting fact that Provozell mentioned in his presentation about Jackson is that she wrote over a thousand words a day when she was a teenager. Jackson throughout her lifetime published forty-four short stories, novels, and one play (Provozell, RT 3). One of these stories includes The Lottery, which is still very popular in the United States today (Provozell, RT 3). She won thirteen rewards, one in which was the Edgar Allen Poe award in 1961(Provozell, RT 3). Jackson died during her sleep at the age of forty-eight due to heart failure (Provozell, RT 4). …show more content…
The children go around the square picking up rocks and putting them into a pile (1). They pull the names of the villagers out of an old black box that sits on a stool in front of the square (2). The husband of each family draws a piece of paper. Whichever husband’s piece of paper contains the black dot marks the family that will draw during the second round of the event, which in this case was the Hutchinson’s (5). After each of the Hutchinson’s pull their piece of paper out of the box, it was Mrs. Hutchinson paper that contained the black dot (6). That is when everyone in the small town took the rocks that the children piled up and used them to stoned Mrs.