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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…

In most cases when you are trying to make your point clear though the reader’s eyes, symbols play a major role of understanding. For example, the way we communicate though text message, emojis were created as a better way to express emotions & feelings though tiny figures. Using emojis when texting the other person will know how he/she is feeling. Other symbols of importance can be found on uniforms that police officers, military & government officials wear. Therefore, more respect is shown…

The True Nature of Humans It is a beautiful and bright summer day. Though a small village, all of the village people are out and about. They are all waiting for the lottery to officially begin. It seems like an exciting event; people might win money or other prizes. However, it is not a lottery to win something, it is a lottery to decide who will be stoned to death. Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” takes place on June 27 in a small village. Children are seen collecting stones and…

Why Blindly Follow Tradition? When a family or community gets in the habit of doing something, whether it be daily, weekly, or annually, it can turn into a tradition that everyone takes part in. Traditions can be passed down for years and years until one person or a group of people decide to change it or completely get rid of it. As years go on there can sometimes be changes made to traditions because the original founders of the tradition are not there to make sure everything stays the same…

Title: Milo’s Miracle Milo looked up at the sky. It was a hot, clear day with the boiling sun blazing down. He wished to be selling lemonade at a stand or riding his bike down the street with the other kids. Instead, he was getting water from the well. Milo and his mother were not very rich. As matter of fact, they were poor, with very little money. Milo did chores all around the house helping his Mother as much as he could. His Mother was usually working hard doing different jobs to make…

Blindly following society’s norms can lead to consequences that negatively affect the lives of the followers. Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery begins with a focus on the villagers gathering for a lottery. The people begin to wonder where Tessie Hutchinson is who shows up late. Once the lottery begins, Mr. Hutchinson draws the marked paper leading to Tessie being chosen. She attempts to reason with the people claiming “it isn’t fair” (Jackson 6), however the villagers ignore her pleas and attack…

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” begins in a small town of 300 and on the 27th of June the townspeople assemble once a year for the lottery. Mr. Summers conducts the lottery and places an old worn out black box that’s older than all citizens on a stool, which contains slips of paper. Detailed list is made of each family, Mr. Summers takes note of the ones unable to attend and the lottery begins with the head of each household taking a slip of paper. They check their slips of paper and the one who…

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…

In 1948, Shirley Jackson wrote the famous 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…