Gambling Life
Short stories have an interesting insight of an author’s ability to portray a central idea in a short time period. In literature, a short story keeps a reader focused and helps the reader find the central idea. For example, in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, the central idea of tradition is portrayed from the beginning of the story. In “The Lottery”, townspeople are forced to gamble their lives by participating in an annual lottery. The short story shows the ignorance that individuals have toward traditions because of the time period of existence. Shirley Jackson uses the fiction elements of plot, character, and symbolism to illustrate the theme of tradition in “The Lottery”.
Typically, the lottery consists of people who gamble
Short stories have an interesting insight of an author’s ability to portray a central idea in a short time period. In literature, a short story keeps a reader focused and helps the reader find the central idea. For example, in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, the central idea of tradition is portrayed from the beginning of the story. In “The Lottery”, townspeople are forced to gamble their lives by participating in an annual lottery. The short story shows the ignorance that individuals have toward traditions because of the time period of existence. Shirley Jackson uses the fiction elements of plot, character, and symbolism to illustrate the theme of tradition in “The Lottery”.
Typically, the lottery consists of people who gamble