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a game of Russian roulette. Generations of tradition passed on as the norm; never to challenge its significance. A box created holds slips of death. How can one person determine the fate of another. Shirley Jackson presents a character in “The Lottery,” that has control of the village’s annual events. In contrast to that one main event, which has the purpose of choosing one’s fate. As you read further into the story you see how the townspeople go about their annual routine to prepare for the…

Tension, suspense, mystery, and anticipation are feelings often inspired by Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery”. It took Jackson less than two hours to write “The Lottery”. Being shorter than 3,500 words, it is a short story by all structural standards, yet its content outraged the U.S. population. The story was banned in many schools, from a number of libraries, and throughout all of South Africa. One of the many factors that caused this reaction was the tone or “mood” of the story.…

not okay to discuss them. Both The Lottery and Hills Like White Elephants share the same theme; they both avoid difficult topics because of the traditions they’ve always participated in and the beliefs they never questioned. However, they are also different in the sense that in one story the theme is about society’s expectations and in the other, the theme focuses on how to handle an unplanned pregnancy and how sensitive the topic is. Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery, takes place during the…

other meanings such as blood, passion, and even maybe danger. In this short story by The lottery is about a village that everyone gathers for a lottery each year. They collect stones and gather around to talk to each other in the middle of the town. The villagers talk to each other and talk about the lottery. Mr. Summer's gets to the town with a black box and a three legged…

The Hunger Games and “The Lottery” are two different stories that have similarities. Based on story lines of both they might have more similarities than differences. “The Lottery” mainly talk about that a citizen of their village is sacrificed each year and the citizen is killed by stone. Comparably, in The Hunger Games, 24 citizens are chosen to fight to the death to leave only one citizen to survive. This paper will focus on similarities between these two stories: blindly following tradition,…

“The Lottery” Questions 1. Are there any books or movies that you have read or seen that are like this one? “The Hunger Games” reminds me of “The Lottery”, because they are similar in many ways. Just like how “the people of the village [begin] to gather in the square” (The Lottery pg23) in “The Lottery”, districts in “The Hunger Games” do the same. A boy and a girl are chosen by drawing two pieces of paper from a bowl, and in the other story, husbands draw in a box. There is no real prize, but…

certain tactics to create an anticipated result of power and control over the citizens. The movies The Island, The Hunger Games, The Lottery, and the short story The Lottery apply these factors to instill hope or heartbreak within their societies. All of these events result in some ultimate result in each movie as well as the short story. The movie and short story The Lottery provides a perfect example of how totalitarian dictatorship and traditional structured government make use of hope to…

The unifying theme of “The Lottery”, by Shirley Jackson, is fading tradition. The villagers are still partaking in a murderous tradition that does not have any meaning to them anymore. Each new generation is slowly getting away from the original tradition. As each year comes and goes a little bit of the tradition fades away. There are a lot of examples of fading tradition in the story, but the ones that are going to used in this essay are Old Man Warner, changes in the ritual, Tessie Hutchison,…

1. The title itself has a positive connotation. A lottery is often seen as a fun, joy filled event, allowing people to test their luck with the chance to win a prize. The title is followed up by a detailed description of a beautiful warm summer day, setting a serene and peaceful tone in the village. From the title and the introduction, an inference may be drawn that this is a story with a happy ending. However, the winner of this lottery is no winner at all, as they are rewarded with death. The…

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…