The Lottery Tone Essay

A writer's tone is very powerful in reshaping and structuring pieces of literature. It also is very strong at determining outcomes of pieces of literature and in a writer’s purpose in their story and effectiveness. Also, a writer can have so much different tones throughout a story depending on whom they are and that leads to the outcome that the writer is trying to get to. In "The Lottery”, the author of that book had many different tones displayed in the story that lead to the outcome of the village murdering Tessie in their own view of it being for the better of their town in accordance to their tradition, which all link to the author’s attitude or tone towards the outcome. Overall, three major tones that the author of "The Lottery" presented …show more content…
Besides that example, another example showing an unmoral tone being used was when Old man Warner said, “things ain’t the way they use to be” [The Lottery Page 5]. Old man Warner saying that showed an unmoral tone in the story being displayed as Old man Warner’s statement is heavily implicit on the fact that society should be like the old conventional ways bound to tradition and do each process right and be proud of the fact that killing someone during their tradition is something to be happy about rather than question and think about the right and wrong reasons of doing so in analyzing the current nature of the situation. Furthermore, the unmoral tones effectiveness and purpose was to use powerful imagery to create a point …show more content…
One example of it being used was when “the women wearing faded house dresses and sweaters, came shortly after their menfolk” [The Lottery Page 2]. The statement showed a strong stereotypical tone since that it segregated the men and women into two very different people and set up a standard for how women should act during the lottery and how men should act and distinctly set up the standard as well. In addition, that statement also set up the norms of the society and the uniqueness of the society being unified together on their principle of thinking and acting in accords to their tradition as the society unified all together through the story and even the outcome of the end of the story when the society decides to stone Tessie to death and really meaning decided since that each individual had a choice of whether they would or not kill Tessie and the stereotypical tone really made the society a distinct, easily recognizable group of a sacrificing cult, which further displays societies unity in this town, even if the thing they are doing is unmoral or done on a tradition detail to detail convention of wearing what the ancestors of the society who created the tradition set out rules for what everyone is supposed to wear and how everyone is supposed to act based on gender and possibly other factors based on the context of the text that the author of “The Lottery really laid out well as a lot of