Shirley Jackson uses “The Lottery” to highlight and showcase.What it looks like when people give up their true identity or morals to fit into their society.In the short story “The Lottery” is story about how a certain village gathers every year on June 27th to sacrifice one of their own people for corn to make as they call it the (Corn God’s) happy. Tessie Hutchinson is the lucky person who gets to exploit the difficulty of the true cost of the lottery that the village old every year.Tessie draws the paper with the black mark on it and is stoned to death. She is excited about the lottery and fully willing to participate every year, but when her family’s name is drawn, she protests that the lottery isn’t fair.Tessie arrives at the village square late because she forgot what day it was.
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The quick, nervous movements of some of the adults suggest that they want to continue the traditional stoning, but they do not wish to ponder on its implications:'All right, folks,' Mr. Summers said. 'Let's finish quickly.' Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones. The pile of stones the boys had made earlier was ready....The children had stones already, and someone gave little Davy Hutchinson a few pebbles.Jackson's narration of the activity of the children in making the pile and picking up the stones clearly suggests that the pleasure in violence is innate. In addition, people may have been insulted by Jackson's implication that the majority do not think for themselves, and are led to do anything, even kill, if the "tradition" dictates, Old Man Warner snorted. 'Pack of crazy fools,' he said.'Some places have already quit lotteries,' Mrs. Adams said.'Nothing but trouble in that,' Old Man Warner said stoutly. "Pack of young
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The quick, nervous movements of some of the adults suggest that they want to continue the traditional stoning, but they do not wish to ponder on its implications:'All right, folks,' Mr. Summers said. 'Let's finish quickly.' Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones. The pile of stones the boys had made earlier was ready....The children had stones already, and someone gave little Davy Hutchinson a few pebbles.Jackson's narration of the activity of the children in making the pile and picking up the stones clearly suggests that the pleasure in violence is innate. In addition, people may have been insulted by Jackson's implication that the majority do not think for themselves, and are led to do anything, even kill, if the "tradition" dictates, Old Man Warner snorted. 'Pack of crazy fools,' he said.'Some places have already quit lotteries,' Mrs. Adams said.'Nothing but trouble in that,' Old Man Warner said stoutly. "Pack of young