Traditions Can Change
Everyone has traditions they follow because its been in their family for generations. Sometimes, traditions may need to be changed for various reasons. Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” uses the same concept with celebrating traditions, but it’s not a very good tradition to have. Every year the families pull a slip of paper out of a black box for the lottery. Someone will experience death, sadness, and pain from the black box. Everyone wants to make changes, but no one has the confidence to stand up for themselves. In “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson uses the black box to symbolize death throughout the story.
In the exposition, Jackson uses symbolism and figurative language to show that the black box symbolizes death. In the …show more content…
Each family member will choose a slip of paper to see who has the black dot. In addition, Mrs. Hutchinson received the black slip of paper and she will get stoned to death. The author states, “ I think we ought to start over,” Mrs. Hutchinson said, as quietly as possible “(Jackson 7). Tessie wants to start over because she has a really good feeling that her family got the black slip of paper. Also it states, “Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife and forced the slip of paper out of her hand, and it had a black spot”(Jackson 7).Everyone in the family drew one slip of paper out of the box and they all were nervously waiting. Tessie received the slip of paper with the black dot. She knew what was happening, yet she didn’t think it was fair, but they still stoned her to death. In theses sentences, the black box symbolizes death, fear, sadness, and hopelessness.
In her story “ The Lottery” Shirley Jackson sets a black box as a representation of death and fear. People need a change, like traditions sometimes people fear to change them, but they feel it’s right too. In addition, there are some traditions that could be changed, but some people don’t have the confidence to change. It leaves the reader with questions: Is the lottery a good thing? Should you always change traditions because traditions were made for a reason? The reader can see it might be a good thing to have the lottery, but it’s bad at the same
Everyone has traditions they follow because its been in their family for generations. Sometimes, traditions may need to be changed for various reasons. Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” uses the same concept with celebrating traditions, but it’s not a very good tradition to have. Every year the families pull a slip of paper out of a black box for the lottery. Someone will experience death, sadness, and pain from the black box. Everyone wants to make changes, but no one has the confidence to stand up for themselves. In “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson uses the black box to symbolize death throughout the story.
In the exposition, Jackson uses symbolism and figurative language to show that the black box symbolizes death. In the …show more content…
Each family member will choose a slip of paper to see who has the black dot. In addition, Mrs. Hutchinson received the black slip of paper and she will get stoned to death. The author states, “ I think we ought to start over,” Mrs. Hutchinson said, as quietly as possible “(Jackson 7). Tessie wants to start over because she has a really good feeling that her family got the black slip of paper. Also it states, “Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife and forced the slip of paper out of her hand, and it had a black spot”(Jackson 7).Everyone in the family drew one slip of paper out of the box and they all were nervously waiting. Tessie received the slip of paper with the black dot. She knew what was happening, yet she didn’t think it was fair, but they still stoned her to death. In theses sentences, the black box symbolizes death, fear, sadness, and hopelessness.
In her story “ The Lottery” Shirley Jackson sets a black box as a representation of death and fear. People need a change, like traditions sometimes people fear to change them, but they feel it’s right too. In addition, there are some traditions that could be changed, but some people don’t have the confidence to change. It leaves the reader with questions: Is the lottery a good thing? Should you always change traditions because traditions were made for a reason? The reader can see it might be a good thing to have the lottery, but it’s bad at the same