Did you know that your chances of winning the lottery is 1 in 175 million? Yeah your chances of winning the lottery are is very slim. But in this fictional town winning the lottery is not all that great, because if you win, you get the fabulous prize of death by stones. Shirley Jackson’s short story, “ The Lottery” uses the “Black box” as a symbol to convey an underlying message that society isolates those who go against society’s ideals and that death comes without warning. In Shirley Jackson’s short story the black box represents how death will not ask question and will attack without warning. It is illustrated as Tessie speaks out after being the lucky chosen family to win the lottery “ Suddenly. Tessie Hutchinson shouted to Mr. Summers. "You didn't give him time enough to take any paper he wanted. I saw you.
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This is expresses as Tessie Hutchinson was “coincidently”chosen to be stone to death right after she spoke up against the terrible ritual that is done every year. “ ‘It isn't fair,’ she said. A stone hit her on the side of the head. Old Man Warner was saying, ‘Come on, come on, everyone.’(Jackson 34) To abbreviate the author reinforces that if you were to speak out against something the world will do what it has to do to shut you up.The world isolates you,removes you,and in Tessie’s case kill you.
This idea that the world isolates you if you speak out or that death comes without warning is something we live with everyday as people. For example The United States of America a nation known to boast that they are the nation of freedom of speech, But are we really? Do we really have the right to say whatever we want? The answer is no. When our president John F. Kennedy spoke against racism he was killed so he would not provoke change. In the U.S. if people don’t like what you are saying than you should expect a bullet in your
This is expresses as Tessie Hutchinson was “coincidently”chosen to be stone to death right after she spoke up against the terrible ritual that is done every year. “ ‘It isn't fair,’ she said. A stone hit her on the side of the head. Old Man Warner was saying, ‘Come on, come on, everyone.’(Jackson 34) To abbreviate the author reinforces that if you were to speak out against something the world will do what it has to do to shut you up.The world isolates you,removes you,and in Tessie’s case kill you.
This idea that the world isolates you if you speak out or that death comes without warning is something we live with everyday as people. For example The United States of America a nation known to boast that they are the nation of freedom of speech, But are we really? Do we really have the right to say whatever we want? The answer is no. When our president John F. Kennedy spoke against racism he was killed so he would not provoke change. In the U.S. if people don’t like what you are saying than you should expect a bullet in your