Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco, but she spent her teenage years in Rochester, New York. She also dropped out student from college, but later she graduated from Syracuse University. After she got married, she settled in Bennington, Vermont; she had a hard time with the town society. She wrote many novels for money, but “the lottery” was a short story published by the New Yorker Magazine on the June 26, 1948. The author wrote this story right after World War II ended in Europe. The Jackson story became the most widely known American short story. This short story brought biggest shock to readers who read “the Lottery”. In a story, there are three important things; they are - Allegorys, symbols, and name of characters.
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First symbols are setting and time. This story is taking place in the small village with 300 people. The lottery happened every year on a warm summer day, and villagers gather in a town square to participate in a lottery. It is harvesting time for farmers, and they are busy doing planting and taxes. And children’s summer vacation started; they are busy to pick stones and piles in one corner of the town square (Jackson). Why do you think author pick June 27 in the Lottery? It has a symbolic meaning “ The summer solstice (June 21) has already passed and the Fourth of July has not yet arrived. June 27 falls halfway between these dates. June 27 bisects the two weeks between these dichotomous dates and may well embody the contrast between superstitious paganism and rational democracy”(Yarmove). Second symbols are stones and black box. Stones are also significant as murder weapons because the first human tools were made of stone. For example, villager use stones to sacrifice peoples life. From the story, the black box keeps on a stool in the middle of Town Square (Jackson). The black box represented culture the manipulation violence. The three legs of the stool are aspects of the Christen Trinity, and they are God the Father, and God the Son, and the Holy Spirits …show more content…
Jackson telling American societies that it is right to follow tradition, but do not effect other peoples life. On the story, person has to sacrifice his own life by playing a lottery. We can see that the lottery has ironic characters that symbolize unique character.
The author is warning us that we do not want to domain one another cultures. The date, the location, and the names in Jackson’s story help to create the holocaust in a story. There are many Americans deaths after the end of World War II and the revelation of the early Nuremburg trials in1945 and 1946, but Jackson shows that Nazi Germany controls the Germany not at the United States of
Shirley Jackson …show more content…
First symbols are setting and time. This story is taking place in the small village with 300 people. The lottery happened every year on a warm summer day, and villagers gather in a town square to participate in a lottery. It is harvesting time for farmers, and they are busy doing planting and taxes. And children’s summer vacation started; they are busy to pick stones and piles in one corner of the town square (Jackson). Why do you think author pick June 27 in the Lottery? It has a symbolic meaning “ The summer solstice (June 21) has already passed and the Fourth of July has not yet arrived. June 27 falls halfway between these dates. June 27 bisects the two weeks between these dichotomous dates and may well embody the contrast between superstitious paganism and rational democracy”(Yarmove). Second symbols are stones and black box. Stones are also significant as murder weapons because the first human tools were made of stone. For example, villager use stones to sacrifice peoples life. From the story, the black box keeps on a stool in the middle of Town Square (Jackson). The black box represented culture the manipulation violence. The three legs of the stool are aspects of the Christen Trinity, and they are God the Father, and God the Son, and the Holy Spirits …show more content…
Jackson telling American societies that it is right to follow tradition, but do not effect other peoples life. On the story, person has to sacrifice his own life by playing a lottery. We can see that the lottery has ironic characters that symbolize unique character.
The author is warning us that we do not want to domain one another cultures. The date, the location, and the names in Jackson’s story help to create the holocaust in a story. There are many Americans deaths after the end of World War II and the revelation of the early Nuremburg trials in1945 and 1946, but Jackson shows that Nazi Germany controls the Germany not at the United States of