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Shirley Jackson’s short stories “The Lottery” and “The Possibility of Evil” explore bad memories and relationships Shirley had from childhood until late adulthood. Shirley grew up with her mother and father in the city of Burlingame, California. Shirley’s parents maintained an upper middle class status. Her mother put a lot of pressure on Shirley to fit in but Shirley would rather just read a book then hangout with other friends. Shirley enjoyed living in California and was very upset when her…

The Golden Rule of Christianity states, that whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them. In a small village described in “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson prevailing a different rules. The annual ritual inhabitants perform is very wild and cruel. They play a lottery at the main square and a “lucky winner” gets a special prize - get stoned to death by the rest of the people. Shirley Jackson develops the character of Tessie Hutchinson to show the contrast between individual in…

Aunt Moon’s Young Man, Incarnation, Mending Wall We start with a short story about an intelligent Native-American woman having non-traditional values that has found love In Linda Hogan’s “Aunt Moon’s Young Man”. The plot itself is relatively simple: A dark, lean, full-blooded Indian, who comes to town on an autumn day just as the annual fair is about to begin, he excites the women with his exotic good looks as well as the fact that the man is "alive in his whole body." It’s easy to see that the…

The Cat Once Called Friday It was a nice summer day. The sun was shining but the heat was numbed by the cool breeze. It was almost too nice to stay inside. However, I was up in my room typing up a story or something of that nature. I don’t remember what I was doing but I remember that it was in the middle of July. Imagine that, a nice day in the middle of a Texas’ July. It’s almost unheard of and I was inside. Well, what can I say I love to write. I think I remember what I was writing. It was a…

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The story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a short story containing shocking realism. On June 27th all the villagers will come together to participate in a huge lottery run by Mr.Summers who hosts all big civic events that go on in town. Each man will pick a slip of paper from a black wooden box and cannot open the slip of paper until each man has one.The name of whom has been selected is Bill Hutchinson. After his name has been called out his wife Tessie instantly starts to protest. Since…

Gimpel was a fool in a different way Gimpel the Fool is a short story written by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The story is about a bread maker, Gimpel who lives in a small town somewhere in Europe sometime in the early 20. century. Everybody consider Gimpel as a fool and give him seven sobriquet. The people from the town make cruel jokes at Gimpel’s expense. The folk thinks he belives everything they tell him because Gimpel does not say a single word, for example: I do not belive you or You are lying,…

There is a diversity of ways as to how an author may want to illustrate an idea or concept, many of which use a varsity of literary devices to accomplish the transcendence of the message to the public. Ernest Hemingway is an author who immensely succeeds in transcending our perspective of the symbols and context clues into something beyond the words we read on the page. The “iceberg theory”, mastered by Ernest Hemingway, gives way to the idea that less is more, and that we, as an author, only…

Comparison Essay on 2 B R 0 2 B and The Lottery By: Aashish Ramanlal Can a perfect society exist? This is the simple question curving the backbone of every dystopian story. 2 B R 0 2 B written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr and The Lottery written by Shirley Jackson are both short dystopian stories that explore different types of worlds and whether or not a utopia can exist. An outstanding theme in 2 B R 0 2 B is whether or not authoritarian government control is a good thing. A quote that portrays…

Authors use mood to make the reader feel a certain way while reading the text. The short stories “Back Roads” by Vinnie Rotondaro is about 2 friends that are traveling from New York City and take the backroads because they are more beautiful. “A Winter's Drive” by ReadWorks is about a man taking a trip across the US Canada border to go to the house he grew up in to get his hockey cards. When the author of a text describes in detail the setting of the text it makes the mood even more superior.…