Lottery

Life, it’s funny, how one little thing can have such a large impact on it. In the case of “The Lottery”, the little black box has a profound effect on the towns’ people. In this instance it has a profound impact on one person in particular, Tessie Hutchinson. Tessie Hutchinson finds that in an instant life can change right before your eyes. She proclaims at the end of the story, “It isn’t fair, it isn’t right.” (243) Can you imagine a simple box could carry so much weight? This box that has…

Shirley Jackson’s, The Lottery, is a short story that exhibits the corruption in society. The story initially describes a small village whose lives are significantly embroidered upon an annual ritual known as “the lottery.” Allegedly, the ritual is done to ensure a healthy harvest and simply because it has always been done. As part of the ritual, slips of paper are put into a black box that will later be drawn by the families of the village. Unfortunately, the family who draws the slip of paper…

Persuasive Lotteries Research Paper Working all day can be stressful; for many, engaging in the lottery is believed to reveal these pressures and change their lives for the better. Although this may seem true, the lottery will change lives for the worst. Lotteries are a form of gambling: purchasing a ticket in hopes of winning a fortune. Lotteries act as a hypnotizing game that lures innocent people to waste their time, throw away their money, and destroy their lives. To begin with,…

the lottery is very interesting and kind of evil, although it is a story you can't walk away from. In the story the Lottery the dark action is getting stoned when getting picked in the Lottery. The unlucky winner gets stoned by each of the town members. The narrator’s actions were prompted by his emotions, however it could have been avoided if he overcame his darker impulses. In the story the Lottery the intentions or emotions is that the Lottery is tradition. The town people in the Lottery…

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson was published on June 26, 1948. Some of her other works include “The Haunting of Hill House”, “Hangsaman”, And “The Sundial”. Jackson is known for many things but mostly for her Horror/Mystery stories as they are known to captivate the reader. Shirley Jackson is a very prolific author because she to brings a unique form of writing to her readers. This is seen through her many novels and short stories as the reader is greeted with something new in each one. “The…

In the story, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson the town’s people have a strange tradition. The tradition consists of a lottery, but it ends with the “winner” getting stoned by the rest of the town. Throughout the story, the reader finds out that in the end this tradition is pointless and does more harm than good. They should abandon the tradition of the lottery all together specifically because the lack of benefits from the tradition, the psychological affects it has on the participants and the…

district's labor. The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson is about a small American town in the 1800s, that keeps order and sanity by selecting one town member to be stoned to death each year. Anyone can be selected, even children. In the end, everyone, including family members joins in the killing. In these stories, it is evident that The Lottery and The Hunger Games are different in atmosphere and society, but are similar in the way that they follow tradition. The Hunger Games and The Lottery are…

In the Lottery by Shirley Jackson, it tells about a drawing held every year in a village every year. That the lottery has been going on for as been going on for a long time now. Even though the author does not clearly state the origin of the lottery or what it is about she does state that the person is chosen at random. The use of symbolism, Shirley Jackson uses the setting, names, and even the objects to give the reader clues on what the lottery is really about throughout the story. In the…

Depicted in “The Lottery” Character: Mr. Summers Plot: tradition is a way of life of a people, “The Lottery” however, paints a society with wayward tradition still embracing the culture of human sacrifice and murder which is cantankerous, inhumane and barbaric. Setting: A small town in contemporary America which has an annual ritual known as "The Lottery" with a population of about three hundred people. Mr. Summers is reflective archetype of the tradition of the people in “The Lottery”, who…

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…