Every story is impacted by past events. In the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, it is greatly impacted by history. In this unique short story a village is hosting their annual lottery. During this lottery every family in the village must go select a card. The lucky family that gets the card with the black dot must go select again. The family member who gets the black dot again, ends up getting stoned to death by the fellow villagers. This story was greatly impacted by history, and its past wars, and women’s rights.
Around the time period when “The Lottery” was written there was a huge war that had just ended. World War II had started in 1939 and ended in 1945. This all just happened before 1948, which is when the short story was
Around the time period when “The Lottery” was written there was a huge war that had just ended. World War II had started in 1939 and ended in 1945. This all just happened before 1948, which is when the short story was