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in any situation, people who trust their instincts typically make a better decision. In The Lottery, a small town awaits for the annual tradition of a lottery. Typically lottery’s are a positive thing, though in this case you could get stoned to death. All the fathers of the families draw slips of paper, hoping that they will open it to see a blank paper, without a black dot on it. In this years lottery, the Hutchinson’s got the black dot, none of the townspeople bothered to care about the…

lives. Shirley Jackson’s renowned short story, “The Lottery” displays how the wicked game of chance is apparent not only in fiction but in today’s chaotic, and often needless acts of violence. The elements of fiction often present…

tradition of ‘the lottery’, however there are multiple villages in this world. When word gets around that some villages are putting a stop to the lottery tradition, the villagers act in a negative way. “...Mr. Adams said to Old Man Warner...over in the north village they’re talking about getting rid of the lottery…” (Jackson 3). Followed by Old Man Warner’s response “Pack of crazy fools...listening to the young folks, nothing’s good enough for them….there’s always been a lottery…” (Jackson 4).…

Both “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “First They Came” by Martin Niemoller deals with speaking out and tragic death. In “The Lottery,” Mr. Summers conducted the lottery this year. Over the years, the black box is passed on. Each year, one person gets stoned to death. In “The Lottery,” death comes by lottery and while the people are not like killing a person that they care for, but it is a tradition. In “First They Came”, the main character does not seem to care about others who have died…

Misleading tradition In the short story, “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, people in the village gather around for the annual lottery. In the end, Tessie, the wife of Bill Hutchinson, is the one to receive the black dot on her slip and everyone stones Tessie to death. Readers who read this tragedy may wonder why the community does this brutal event. Originally, the lottery was a sacrifice for the crops to flourish, but as time passed the ritual became a tradition. First off, the…

Fear In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” Most people would like to win the lottery because it has to deal with winning money. In this story the lottery deals with death. The lottery in real life is about winning “big bucks” and becoming a millionaire. In this story, Shirley Jackson uses the lottery to symbolize death for the townspeople. In “The Lottery,” Shirley Jackson uses the black box, the stones, and the black-dotted piece of paper to symbolize the fear of the townspeople. In transition,…

Before: At the beginning of the story, the tone is warm, innocent and childlike. In paragraph 1, it states " The harvesting of the corn and cotton, peanuts and squash, made each day a golden surprise that caused excited little tremors to run up her jaws." This symbolizes that it is autumn, and the harvest season create the colors of the day in a vision of nature in its beauty. As the story continues, Myop's excitement becomes contagious. In paragraph 2, it states " She felt light and good in the…

short-story that would be read in classroom across America, called “The Lottery”. “The Lottery” is a short story about a small village who believe in a tradition that once a year someone will be picked at random, from a lottery, to be stoned by the whole village. It doesn’t say for sure why they do this but readers can assume that it is a traditional sacrifice to have good harvest in the fall due to Old Man Warner saying, “Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon” (Jackson 264). But besides the…

Last week in our class we read and watched the short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. The story has a main character, Tessie Hutchinson, and her family, who “win” the lottery. This story takes place in a small village. The people there kept their lottery, even though they could have gotten rid of it, because they wanted to stick with their traditions of ritualistic violence. This tradition was first put into use because in the past there were human sacrifices in order to get good crops for…

town still has the tradition of "The Lottery". I vaguely remember my mother was picked in the lottery and was killed when I was three years old. As I have grown up, I started to understand how inhumane this "lottery" is. Each year somebody I have known has died in the lottery. Last year my best friend was selected and he was stoned just like his brother before him. After my friend died, I went around the town gathering people to rebel at the next lottery. I gathered at least 50…