For many cultures, it’s hard to break away from their past. There is a human want to be close with our elders or the people who came before us. For example, tribes in Africa still hunt the same way their ancestors did thousands of years ago. They also to the same rituals after a successful hunt as their ancestors did before them. Some rituals don’t last, but if they do and they stay around long enough they become laws. This is what happens in the story “The Lottery” The author of this short story Shirley Jackson tries to show her reader what happens to rituals that stay around too long. That is why she wrote this story, to show her readers what can happen if we just follow something blindly. She starts to foreshadow from the beginning of the
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I thought it was odd to see kids gather that many rocks for no reason. At that time though I didn’t have a clue why they would do such a thing.
After that most of the people of the village have made it the center of town. The story tells us that the lottery is run by a man named Mr.Summers. Once again Jackson is trying to mask the true nature of something, with something nice. After the readers meet Mr.Summers and learn that his life is not so great, he brings out the black box. A black box does not sound good and we as readers can make an inference based off the crowd 's reaction that the box is not a good thing. “ When he arrived in the square, carrying the black wooden box, there was a murmur of conversation among the villagers” ( Jackson 133) Then we meet a character whose name is most likely foreshadowing, Mr.Graves is the postmaster if the town and he follows Mr.Summers to the center of the square hold a stand for the black box. At one point in this part of the story Mr.Summers asks for some help, “ “ Some of you fellows want to give me a hand ?” there was hesitation before two men, Mr. Martin and his oldest son Baxter, came forward to hold the box steady on the stand” ( Jackson 133) I thought it was weird that …show more content…
It’s Mrs. Hutchinson, right from that point you know she is kinda a black sheep of the town. Everyone else in the town makes sure they’re on time for the lottery, but she somehow forgets and is stuck at her house doing dishes. At this moment forward you know she is going to play some sort of
I thought it was odd to see kids gather that many rocks for no reason. At that time though I didn’t have a clue why they would do such a thing.
After that most of the people of the village have made it the center of town. The story tells us that the lottery is run by a man named Mr.Summers. Once again Jackson is trying to mask the true nature of something, with something nice. After the readers meet Mr.Summers and learn that his life is not so great, he brings out the black box. A black box does not sound good and we as readers can make an inference based off the crowd 's reaction that the box is not a good thing. “ When he arrived in the square, carrying the black wooden box, there was a murmur of conversation among the villagers” ( Jackson 133) Then we meet a character whose name is most likely foreshadowing, Mr.Graves is the postmaster if the town and he follows Mr.Summers to the center of the square hold a stand for the black box. At one point in this part of the story Mr.Summers asks for some help, “ “ Some of you fellows want to give me a hand ?” there was hesitation before two men, Mr. Martin and his oldest son Baxter, came forward to hold the box steady on the stand” ( Jackson 133) I thought it was weird that …show more content…
It’s Mrs. Hutchinson, right from that point you know she is kinda a black sheep of the town. Everyone else in the town makes sure they’re on time for the lottery, but she somehow forgets and is stuck at her house doing dishes. At this moment forward you know she is going to play some sort of