Shirley Ardell Mason

What Is The Purpose Of The Lottery? “It isn’t fair, It isn’t right”, Tessie Hutchinson screaming in fear. In the story “The Lottery” written by Shirley Jackson, which takes place around the 1950’s, shows how important miserable tradition are important to people, even thought at the end of every year’s lottery a person that won the lottery is stoned to death. If a person from your family wins the lottery it's not a good thing, it's actually a deadly thing because you will get stoned to death…

Popular author Shirley Jackson arguably pioneered the fictional dystopian genre with her short story “The Lottery”. Inspired by the hardships of the Second World War, the narrative elements of “The Lottery” signify the traits of a primal, dysfunctional, and ritualistic society. This is exemplified throughout the narrative as the plot, characters, and setting, all symbolize a particular aspect of a primitive dystopia. In the beginning of “The Lottery”, Jackson describes a ceremonious…

In the story “ The Lottery” there's two characters that were one of the important ones or had a big role in the story. The two characters were Tessie and Mr. Summers. Winning a lottery will not always be a good thing. Sometimes if you win the lottery you can get a positive thing out of it or if you win the lottery you can get a negative thing or a bad things out of it. Tessie was a women in the middle age. She likes to mess around. Her goals is to survive the lottery. In the story her…

The continuing of the tradition and the people of the town who are partaking in the lottery are to blame on tragedy that the lottery represents. This is because they are the ones who blindly follow and accept the ghastly tradition. With it being a tradition no one seems to want to object or withdraw from the lottery. The people of the town do not eradicate the tradition of the lottery since sacrificing one has been passed down from their ancestors. The lottery box “had been constructed when the…

Kino’s Other Side Have you ever wondered what can make people lose their sanity? In the book, The Pearl by John Steinbeck, it answers that very question about Kino’s sanity. Kino had a rather normal life before finding something so valuable no one should possess. It would change the course of Kino and his family's life, and their future indefinitely. It had all started when Kino had awoken to the little crashes of the waves on the beach. He got up to watch the sunrise over the…

How much longer must ignorance and pointless violence continue before we will start to change? The answer to this question may appear simple and in Shirley Jackson’s short story, “The Lottery” the satire is obvious. By using literary criticisms readers can evaluate more in depth what the story is actually trying convey. Two major literary criticisms that will discussed in detail are Psychological Theory and Historical Criticism and New Historicism. Psychological Theory basically deals with the…

“The Lottery” is a short story written by Shirley Jackson. It is about a lottery that takes place once a year in a small village. Many are wondering why they do a lottery so this paragraph is going to show you crucial evidence on why the event takes place. The reason why the villagers "have" to have a lottery is simply because the lottery had become a tradition that had been followed since the time of the villagers' ancestors. As a result, the villagers had become so used to repeating this…

This passage heavily relies on how the plot is portrayed. By having the plot in chronological order, the reader was able to identify how complex the main character Hester was and how she evolved throughout the story. If the events were ordered differently from how the passage is currently structured, it wouldn't have the impact that it currently has The passage begins with Hester asking her husband to allow their children to go to the circus. it continues as Hester attempts to reason with…

In Shirley Jackson’s short story, The Lottery, the concept is explored that a person can become desensitized to acts or values that he or she is raised with. The values of the people in the village have, at the time of the story’s telling, been in place for many years, as demonstrated by Old Man Warner’s remarks. “Seventy-seventh year I been in the lottery… Seventy-seventh time.” Given his position as the one of if not the single oldest person in the village, it is clear that Old Man Warner…

world have been following the traditions without even knowing who started the tradition. In Shirley Jackson’s, famous short story “The Lottery”, takes place in a small village, where the whole community participates in a traditional and annual lottery. Shirley Jackson, shows us through her story how society’s blind acceptance of traditions is dangerous. She accomplished this by her use of foreshadowing,…