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The Lottery Through the usage of literary elements, Shirley Jackson is able to convey several themes to the reader such as the danger of blindly following tradition. Jackson’s calm tone is spectacular for her story. She begins in a very journalistic approach in the first sentence by describing the morning being very clear, sunny, and beautiful. The style appears to be without any sort of emotion- no kindness and no pleasure. This tone reflects the attitudes of the villagers themselves who view…

short stories have been converted to dramas because of their unexpected story lines. Years after publication, Jackson’s stories are still considered some of the greatest works in American literature. Throughout Shirley Jackson’s short stories “The Lottery”, “The Possibility of Evil”, and “Charles”, there are grim plot twists at the end of the stories that make the reader realize the real meaning of the story.…

The Lottery,” written by Shirley Jackson in 1948, is an interesting, dark short story. Shirley Jackson fills her short story with imagery, irony, suspense, symbolism, and foreshadowing. The story is about a town full of villagers holding a lottery. However, the story has situational irony due to the normal idea that the lottery is a prize of joyfulness. However, Shirley Jackson creates a new, not typical lottery that has a deeper and darker meaning. As the story continues, word by word, the…

The Lottery Questions 1. Acorrding to multiple sources, The Lottery by Shirley Jackson recieved very bad reviews. This short story was published in the New Yorker, and was read by thousands of people. Shirley Jackson recieve 300 letters in two months,in which only 13 were positive. Even her parents didn’t support her story. So why would it recieve such bad reviews? Well, acording to the New Yorker’s response to some complaints: “Miss Jackson’s story can be interpreted in half a dozen different…

The town’s people never openly agreed or disagreed with the purpose of the lottery, however there was a brief discussion with some characters about how other places had already got rid of the lottery. While, only Old Man Warner, expressed his distaste for getting rid of the lottery by calling them “a pack of crazy fools” and “theres always been a lottery.” Jackson’s omission of the purpose affects my interpretation of the story because it allows me to come up with my own depressing conclusion.…

The Lottery Alternate Ending “Alright” Mr. Summers said. “Open the papers, Mr. Hutchinson you open Daves” Mr. Hutchinson took the second paper into his hands, and craned his neck to look down the line of people. Tessie had just opened her paper and was showing it to the crowd, it was blank. Staring down at his own he opened Dave’s paper, also blank. Subsequently, he switched hands to open his paper, faintly he could hear a sigh of relief from Bill Jr. as he began to show off his clean white…

A story that went through many controversies and became the highlight of conversation for many years, The Lottery was banned from schools and libraries, and many parents condemned it. The author, Shirley Jackson, had a reason behind writing this piece of literature, ”I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village, to shock the story’s readers with a graphic demonstration of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.” She wanted…

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson takes what seems to be a typical small town setting and turns it into a much more chilling occasion. Jackson’s theme of the dark side of human nature is revealed through symbolism and irony. In "The Lottery," Jackson shows how people in today's society are tainted and will blindly follow a tradition, even if it is immoral. Jackson implants a great deal of symbolism into “The Lottery;” even the title itself is a symbol. A lottery according to our own modern…

The lottery has been a ritual in surrounding towns for years. Slips of paper fill the famous black box that has been remade years ago. All the families in the town gather together where the man of the family draws from the black box to chose his family’s paper. The family who has chosen the piece of paper that had been marked with the black box, has to come up and draw another piece of paper for each member of the family. The men of the whole town drew their slips and Mr. Hutchinson was the…

Captivating, the only word that comes to my mind when I think about “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. This twisted tale has captured my eye and is a great page turner. This story is about an average village with an uncommon ritual. At one glance a reader might misinterpret the story. To understand the message that the author is trying to send, you must re-read the story multiple times. After numerous reads I have come to a conclusion regarding the theme, repetition of tradition forces you to…