Magic Tricks In Shirly Jackson's The Lottery

One of the greatest magic tricks that Shirly Jackson has pulled over is somehow convincing the reader in the first few paragraphs starting with the title, that happy ending about to occur, for the most part I thought that the destination of the story will unveil a pleasant surprise eventually , it is summer time what could happen wrong in a warm summer day, “ the flowers were blossoming profusely “to find out on the contrary of most of the stories I’ve read in the past, the complexity of the words and the various images of the characters, forced me to read more than once just to comprehend the chain of events from gathering to waiting, to drafting While keeping track of the characters rules, and finally choosing the one winner of “the lottery”. …show more content…
I think the boys have previous knowledge of the events that about to occur, some stuffed their pockets full of stones, knowingly that it takes more than one stone to accomplish the job. Other made a small pile of stones and guarded it. is commodity or an object to be used later in the …show more content…
The frequency that the lottery took place, and why there is gap of many years that resulted in loss of some traditional ceremony, not one was quite sure what happen. maybe the village vanished and those who want to live longer and not interfere with matters of life and death and putting their faith in a higher power left the village and discarded the old ways.
The black box guardian, Mr. Summers with the collaboration from the post master Mr. Graves stood in the story as the two pillars where the events took place in between, Mr. summers are a fortunate business owner in an orthodox unfortunate way, he had no offspring, and a nagging wife, his duty was to arrange the lottery and make sure the list are prepared for all the village residents names and if they qualify for the draft or someone else had drafted for