"The Lottery" Visual Analysis
Shirley Jackson was born on December 14, 1919, in San Fransisco, California. She graduated from Syracuse University in 1940. Her most famous work is "The Lottery", which one the "O Henry Prize Stories". Her other works include a children's novel "Nine Magic Wishes", two humorous memoirs called "Raising Demons" and "Life Among the Savages". She has garnered multiple Best American Short Stories. Majority Of Shirley Jackson's work is very odd and macabre that has some sense of doom with an ordinary setting and characters. She passed away on August 8, 1965. Her remains work was published by her husband. The Lottery is a town in the middle of nowhere, quite possibly somewhere in New England where they have a yearly drawing from a block box. Whoever gets chosen, whether that is a young child or an old lady will be stoned to death immediately by the townspeople. So this year Tessie Hutchinson was chosen and she started complaining that it wasn't fair. Of course, the townspeople didn't give a crap and the children started stoning her while everyone slowly joined killing her stone by stone. The Lottery satirizes the idea that a sacrifice should be made to ensure a good harvest, it then poses the question if old traditions are …show more content…
The narrator observes, "the villagers still remember to use the stones" (76). In many ways, whoever throws the stones at the winner is pretty much casting their vote in favor of The Lottery, and what it is stated in the book it the reader can determine the lottery will continue as an accepted tradition in future generations. Stones are also significant as murder weapons because the first human tools were made of stone; this lottery really does seem to have its ancestors in the earliest type of violent human
Shirley Jackson was born on December 14, 1919, in San Fransisco, California. She graduated from Syracuse University in 1940. Her most famous work is "The Lottery", which one the "O Henry Prize Stories". Her other works include a children's novel "Nine Magic Wishes", two humorous memoirs called "Raising Demons" and "Life Among the Savages". She has garnered multiple Best American Short Stories. Majority Of Shirley Jackson's work is very odd and macabre that has some sense of doom with an ordinary setting and characters. She passed away on August 8, 1965. Her remains work was published by her husband. The Lottery is a town in the middle of nowhere, quite possibly somewhere in New England where they have a yearly drawing from a block box. Whoever gets chosen, whether that is a young child or an old lady will be stoned to death immediately by the townspeople. So this year Tessie Hutchinson was chosen and she started complaining that it wasn't fair. Of course, the townspeople didn't give a crap and the children started stoning her while everyone slowly joined killing her stone by stone. The Lottery satirizes the idea that a sacrifice should be made to ensure a good harvest, it then poses the question if old traditions are …show more content…
The narrator observes, "the villagers still remember to use the stones" (76). In many ways, whoever throws the stones at the winner is pretty much casting their vote in favor of The Lottery, and what it is stated in the book it the reader can determine the lottery will continue as an accepted tradition in future generations. Stones are also significant as murder weapons because the first human tools were made of stone; this lottery really does seem to have its ancestors in the earliest type of violent human