Death And Death In Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

Everyone has a tradition that they follow, but the tradition in “The Lottery” is death. The last thing Mrs.Hutchinson said, was “It isn’t fair, it isn’t right…”, in reference to her being stoned to death. In “The Lottery,” Shirley Jackson uses the black box and stones to symbolize death in order to support a key theme. In the beginning, the stones foreshadow what they may be used for later, like the stones may be used for throwing at someone or something, the stones are death, and they use the stones to kill people, once a year. On page 1, “Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones…”. The black box contains the slip of paper that sentences the person to death, and the stones are what is used to kill the person, or stone them to death. This is proof because both show examples of death, and death is the key theme in “The Lottery”. …show more content…
The black box contains the slip of paper that sentences the person to death, and the stones are what is used to kill the person, or stone them to death. This is proof because both show examples of death, and death is the key theme in “ The Lottery”. On Page 6, “Mr.Graves had selected the five slips and put them in the box.”. The black box contains the slip of paper that sentences the person to death, and the stones are what is used to kill the person, or stone them to death. This is proof because both show examples of death, and death is the key theme in “The Lottery”.
In the short story, “The Lottery”, by Shirley Jackson the tradition is death, death is necessary to keep the population down, because it is a small town and there are alot of people there, just like in some small towns or citys, when there are too many people, they have to find some way to stop the population from getting any higher. In “The Lottery,” Shirley Jackson uses the black box and stones to symbolize death in order to support a key