Plot
One difference within the plot of these two stories is that ‘The Lottery’ had a really long exposition and rising action because it gave a lot of history of the village before the audience got to know what the lottery really is. “School was recently over for the summer, and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them; they tended to gather together quietly for a while before they broke into boisterous play…” (1.2) Shirley Jackson gives a lot of detail about the villagers and history of the black box and the lottery but we don’t find out what the lottery is until the second half of the story. The story ends with at the climax when Tessie gets stoned and Jackson doesn’t give an explanation or a ending to the story. Will the villagers …show more content…
Examples such as, “it went down the dark street” and “his mouth was already dry, his heart was pounding on his breast,” told the readers that something horrible was going to happen. We mistake the first climax when he gets mugged but the actual climax was when the man finds out the young man he hit was his own son. While in ‘The Lottery’, the plot was misleading when it describes the village as happy families on a “clear and sunny” day. The readers would automatically assume that the lottery is winning money or something beneficial but as the story takes a twist, the story is dark. The lottery is to see who would get …show more content…
Conflict and tension are related because conflict creates tension. Tension in literature is so vital in stories because it evokes emotion from the reader. When something scary is happening in the story, the author has to make the reader have a nervous feeling inside them. The readers crave the next thing that is going to happen. This is what the reader wants to feel in every single scene of the story and this what the Wasteland does. Tension creates connections with the reader and the character and will want the reader to keep reading. Paton pauses the plot to create tensions on page two when it says, “His very entrails seemed to be coming into his mouth, and his lips could taste sweat and blood. His heart was like a wild thing in his breast, and seemed to lift his whole body each time that it beat. He tried to calm it down, thinking it might be heard, and tried to control the noise of his gasping breath, but he could not do either of those things.” The author uses vivid imagery to help the readers visualize what is going on in the
One difference within the plot of these two stories is that ‘The Lottery’ had a really long exposition and rising action because it gave a lot of history of the village before the audience got to know what the lottery really is. “School was recently over for the summer, and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them; they tended to gather together quietly for a while before they broke into boisterous play…” (1.2) Shirley Jackson gives a lot of detail about the villagers and history of the black box and the lottery but we don’t find out what the lottery is until the second half of the story. The story ends with at the climax when Tessie gets stoned and Jackson doesn’t give an explanation or a ending to the story. Will the villagers …show more content…
Examples such as, “it went down the dark street” and “his mouth was already dry, his heart was pounding on his breast,” told the readers that something horrible was going to happen. We mistake the first climax when he gets mugged but the actual climax was when the man finds out the young man he hit was his own son. While in ‘The Lottery’, the plot was misleading when it describes the village as happy families on a “clear and sunny” day. The readers would automatically assume that the lottery is winning money or something beneficial but as the story takes a twist, the story is dark. The lottery is to see who would get …show more content…
Conflict and tension are related because conflict creates tension. Tension in literature is so vital in stories because it evokes emotion from the reader. When something scary is happening in the story, the author has to make the reader have a nervous feeling inside them. The readers crave the next thing that is going to happen. This is what the reader wants to feel in every single scene of the story and this what the Wasteland does. Tension creates connections with the reader and the character and will want the reader to keep reading. Paton pauses the plot to create tensions on page two when it says, “His very entrails seemed to be coming into his mouth, and his lips could taste sweat and blood. His heart was like a wild thing in his breast, and seemed to lift his whole body each time that it beat. He tried to calm it down, thinking it might be heard, and tried to control the noise of his gasping breath, but he could not do either of those things.” The author uses vivid imagery to help the readers visualize what is going on in the