The Lottery
On June 27, all villagers get together for the lottery. The lottery usually takes longer in larger villages but in this village where there only 300 population, the lottery takes about two hours. The children of the village just finish school and getting ready for the summer, they start running and collecting small stones and put them in their pockets. The men come next followed by their women gathering together. In addition, there was a man called Mr, Summers who takes a charge for the lottery and also the village because he got a lot of time to work in the village.
Mr, Summers was holding a black box and going to the square and he was followed by another man called Mr, Graves. Moreover, the box is not the same box that they …show more content…
However, the specific details about the story begin from the first paragraph. Jackson gives us full names of the characters of the story. The full names are Harry Jones,Bobby Martin, and Dickie Delacroix. She even tells us how to pronounce Delacroix. She tells us about the details and specific time which is Jun, 27. She also tells us about the time (10:00 am) and how the temperature is warm. She included a very specific about the village. She described the population of the village and the square and how people gather together and help each other. She also included how long the lottery in the town takes. She described the city as there are green beautiful grass, flowers, and she described the location where the people gather which is between the post office and the bank. She described the tradition of the town and the lottery rules. From all these deep details, it ground the story in …show more content…
She begin writing when she was young at her high school and then she graduated from Syracuse University. She was majoring in English and publishing stories. After she graduated, she was married to a guy names Hyman who was also her old classmate.
After they got married, they moved together from New Hampshire to North Bennington, Vermont. Jackson suffered from panic attacks and anxiety since she was young until she found some relief for her. After that she published a book called "We Have Always Lived in the Castle". In addition, the main characters in the story are Mr, Summers, Tessie Hutchinson, and the Old Man Warner. However, Jackson built suspense in the story as the truth will reveal after the first stone hit Tessie 's head and she wanted to mistake Bill for winning but at the end they found that she was the one who was lying. Finally, the story was a great it was made as a surprising as I thought that Bill was guilty but he wasn 't and Tessie was trying to cheat and put her family members with a black dot so that they know which card they can pick and how the children were throwing their stones at Tessie after they found out she was
On June 27, all villagers get together for the lottery. The lottery usually takes longer in larger villages but in this village where there only 300 population, the lottery takes about two hours. The children of the village just finish school and getting ready for the summer, they start running and collecting small stones and put them in their pockets. The men come next followed by their women gathering together. In addition, there was a man called Mr, Summers who takes a charge for the lottery and also the village because he got a lot of time to work in the village.
Mr, Summers was holding a black box and going to the square and he was followed by another man called Mr, Graves. Moreover, the box is not the same box that they …show more content…
However, the specific details about the story begin from the first paragraph. Jackson gives us full names of the characters of the story. The full names are Harry Jones,Bobby Martin, and Dickie Delacroix. She even tells us how to pronounce Delacroix. She tells us about the details and specific time which is Jun, 27. She also tells us about the time (10:00 am) and how the temperature is warm. She included a very specific about the village. She described the population of the village and the square and how people gather together and help each other. She also included how long the lottery in the town takes. She described the city as there are green beautiful grass, flowers, and she described the location where the people gather which is between the post office and the bank. She described the tradition of the town and the lottery rules. From all these deep details, it ground the story in …show more content…
She begin writing when she was young at her high school and then she graduated from Syracuse University. She was majoring in English and publishing stories. After she graduated, she was married to a guy names Hyman who was also her old classmate.
After they got married, they moved together from New Hampshire to North Bennington, Vermont. Jackson suffered from panic attacks and anxiety since she was young until she found some relief for her. After that she published a book called "We Have Always Lived in the Castle". In addition, the main characters in the story are Mr, Summers, Tessie Hutchinson, and the Old Man Warner. However, Jackson built suspense in the story as the truth will reveal after the first stone hit Tessie 's head and she wanted to mistake Bill for winning but at the end they found that she was the one who was lying. Finally, the story was a great it was made as a surprising as I thought that Bill was guilty but he wasn 't and Tessie was trying to cheat and put her family members with a black dot so that they know which card they can pick and how the children were throwing their stones at Tessie after they found out she was