Shirley Jackson's story, ¨The Lottery¨, is about a small village that conducts a lottery every year on June 27th around ten o'clock in the morning in the village square.The lottery is hosted both by Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves. The children arrive first to the village square and start gathering stones until their parents call them to order.As all of the villagers arrive, Tessie Hutchinson arrives late but is just in time for the lottery. Mr. Summers prepares for the lottery by recording every family in the village and if they have a head of a household to represent them. After that, Mr. Summers calls each head of a household (a grown man) in alphabetical order to walk up to the black wooden box, to take a slip of paper for the lottery. Once everyone has chosen Mr. Summers allows everyone to open up their slip of paper to check if it has a black dot marked on it in the center, which decides the winner. Bill Hutchinson Tessie’s husband is the winner with the black dot on center his slip of paper, this makes Tessie protest and desperate for her and her family to avoid winning the lottery. Mr.Summers makes them do
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The purpose of foreshadowing is to give the reader a clue about what happens in further events in the story. In the text it states,¨A sudden hush fell on the crowd as Mr. Summers cleared his throat and looked at the list….most of them were quiet, wetting their lips not looking around¨ (page 125.) In the story, the villagers are nervous and scared about the lottery and who is going to be the winner, determined by the black dot this foreshadows that the lottery will lead to something horrible. This connects to the atmosphere because this scene gives off an unsettling feeling because the villagers are uncomfortable and anxious about their fates in the lottery. It gives you the feeling that winning isn't everything and might have severe consequences making the atmosphere
The purpose of foreshadowing is to give the reader a clue about what happens in further events in the story. In the text it states,¨A sudden hush fell on the crowd as Mr. Summers cleared his throat and looked at the list….most of them were quiet, wetting their lips not looking around¨ (page 125.) In the story, the villagers are nervous and scared about the lottery and who is going to be the winner, determined by the black dot this foreshadows that the lottery will lead to something horrible. This connects to the atmosphere because this scene gives off an unsettling feeling because the villagers are uncomfortable and anxious about their fates in the lottery. It gives you the feeling that winning isn't everything and might have severe consequences making the atmosphere