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Secondly, the villagers who participate in the lottery do not follow the ritual seriously. This can be distinguished by when the population jokes around with the community about the ceremony. The quote,”Bad enough to see young Joe Summers up there joking with everybody,” displays how they do not care about this event, and how they view this major event with less importance. They are making a joke about something that once was accepted with a purpose, that had been passed on from multiple…

“ The Lottery” In the short story “ The Lottery by: Shirley Jackson” the characters have different feelings about the lottery. One of the characters Mrs. Hutchinson looks like she doesn’t like the lottery at all, Old man Warner was a man who has been in the lottery for 77 years now, Mr. Summer is a man with the black box wherever he goes he is the head of the lottery. In the story “ The Lottery” all the people in the village have different feelings, opinions, and thoughts about the lottery.…

Winning the lottery is something to be thankful for, but this town's lottery makes you thankful for not winning. On September 16th in the small town of Wellington, citizens were gathered to choose this year’s annual lottery winner, or in this case loser. This town uses a method of drawing names of people in the town, the winner is forced to be stoned to death by the townspeople. So, the people who were once your family, friends, and neighbors are now the people who put you to your death. This…

Familiar with the phrase, “calm before the storm?” In the short story titled “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, this phrase holds true. It is a story of villagers in a small town and their annual tradition of having a lottery. Throughout the story, Jackson effectively uses story elements to set the “calm” and unexpectedly shock the readers with its “stormy” ending. In addition, the characters add to the plot to thicken the surprise. Therefore, “The Lottery,” with its misleading beginning and…

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson closely fits as a traditional novel that requires a small village to undergo a yearly mandatory process that will lead to the death of an individual and raise fear to the point one does not want it to continue. The village that participates in the lottery does it because it is a tradition that is valued in the villages history. The lottery takes place because it is believed to be necessary in the villages survival. Though it is believed to be necessary, the…

Tesla Schmidt Mrs. Briscoe English 1 Honors 7 September 2017 Violence in “The Lottery” “The Lottery,” written by Shirley Jackson, features a small village with about 300 residents who anxiously wait for an event. At first the town seems to be cheerful, doing normal activities like children running around and adults talking to one another. As soon as the old man, Mr. Summer, enters with a box, an eerie feeling befalls the villagers. Replacing the before enthusiastic atmosphere. It just so happens…

The shifting of point of view in the story of “The Lottery” helps create the surprise ending for the reader by showing members of the village happily and excitedly getting ready for what seems to be a happy tradition when in actuality it’s a sacrifice. For example, the story starts out by describing it to be a beautiful summers day and the children of the village were out of school and happily playing with one another. The boys of the village were described to be playing a game of collecting and…

1. I think “The Lottery” takes place somewhere rural in the United States. As stated in the text, this story takes place in a small village with around 300 people. I think the writer Shirley Jackson made this setting appear familiar and ordinary because the people living in this village are normal people and they live in a normal village. I also think the writer tried to shock the readers at the end when we realize these people in this village aren’t so normal because they stoned Mrs.…

The Lottery With an exciting title like “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, one might have a happy, optimistic outlook on the short story they are about to read. Instead, “The Lottery” is a short story that takes place in a small rural town where one’s luck can change with a representation of a piece of paper. After reading the tale, one might feel like they just read an insert from a Stephen King horror story, but that is not how Jackson begins the journey. Once a year, the town’s people gather…

First and foremost, the use of the color black plays an important role in this story. Black is culturally used to portray darkness, evil, and death. With the removal of light, darkness prevails. The black box that people draw the slip of paper for the lottery is one of the objects that Shirley Jackson uses to foreshadow the end of the story. The black box represents the tradition of the lottery in that village. It is even older than the oldest man in the village. Nobody in town really knows the…