The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is a very interesting short story. Part of what makes it so interesting is how well it reflects onto real life, even after all of this time. The story involves the people in a small village gathering in the morning on June 27th and drawing papers from a black box. The children have made piles of stones and are playing around them. Tessie Hutchinson’s husband draws the paper with the black dot so that family has to draw again. Tessie draws the one with the black dot on it and is stoned by the other villagers.
One of the characters, Old Man Warner, says there used to be a saying,”lottery in june, corn be heavy soon”. This suggests that the villagers believe, or believed, that after the lottery crops will grow
One of the characters, Old Man Warner, says there used to be a saying,”lottery in june, corn be heavy soon”. This suggests that the villagers believe, or believed, that after the lottery crops will grow