Shirley Jackson’s short story “ The Lottery” uses specific word choice and specific details to convey a threatening tone. One word that Jackson uses to express a threatening tone is “reluctantly”(lines 33). The word reluctantly presents a threatening tone because as used in the story,”the children came reluctantly, have to be called four or five times.” When children go to their own parents reluctantly it usually means that something atrocious will happen. It means this because whenever people are reluctant to go to their parents it is because they are in trouble and they might get hit in the end. When children are reluctant to go somewhere it may infer to a threatening tone because children are usually always happy but if they are scared
