Shirley Ardell Mason

The lottery has been a ritual in surrounding towns for years. Slips of paper fill the famous black box that has been remade years ago. All the families in the town gather together where the man of the family draws from the black box to chose his family’s paper. The family who has chosen the piece of paper that had been marked with the black box, has to come up and draw another piece of paper for each member of the family. The men of the whole town drew their slips and Mr. Hutchinson was the…

Captivating, the only word that comes to my mind when I think about “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. This twisted tale has captured my eye and is a great page turner. This story is about an average village with an uncommon ritual. At one glance a reader might misinterpret the story. To understand the message that the author is trying to send, you must re-read the story multiple times. After numerous reads I have come to a conclusion regarding the theme, repetition of tradition forces you to…

Both Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and People Magazine’s “Will She Be Stoned to Death” demonstrate humanity’s tendency to keep with tradition, even if said tradition is morally wrong or outdated due to new social developments, as well as individuals’ inclination to ignore morally wrong or otherwise unacceptable traditions if those traditions do not directly affect them . Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” displays how traditions often are kept for the sake of themselves, even when their use 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…

Mr. Summers Mr. Summers is the center of the whole town he sets everything up and is in charge of everything. Mr. Summers much like Kenny Nelson a man who is the center of perham and helps support almost every activity in perham. Mr Summers represents a leader who is very much involved with their community yet still blind to things around him. In the Book The Lottery Mr. Summers is portrayed as a round-faced, jovial man who had no children and a married to mean wife. he also ran a cal…

Is there a danger in following tradition? "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson is a story of a village who follow a tradition ever year. The tradition results in death for one of the villagers. Just because it's a tradition and what is known in that town does not mean it has to be. The central idea of the short story can be seen through the conflict in the story. One type of conflict is person vs. society. This is true because at the very end of the story Tessie says "it isn't fair." This displays…

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The Lottery in Babylon is a short fantasy story wrote by Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges. It was published first time in 1941 in a literary magazine called Sur. The story is told by a narrator, who used to live in Babylon, a city which is ruled by Company. Company’s authority is based on the lottery, where the destinies of Babylonians are sealed. Company can be interpret as a God or a deity because in the end of the story, Company has all-power over the people. The human’s desire for adrenaline…

Jackson never overtly states that the townspeople in her story are nervous about the approaching lottery. Instead she uses subtle hints that slowly create a sense of apprehension in the reader. In the third paragraph of "The Lottery" Jackson describes men as they gather in the town square. The children have already begun stacking stones. The men are talking about everyday matters such as "planting and rain, tractors and taxes," but Jackson writes that the men "stood together, away from the pile…

tradition is kept and when it is lost along the way. Being aware of the expected ceremonies helps to maintain the integrity of it all and not let it be done in vain. Shirley Jackson and Leslie Marmon Silko bring amazing work to the table but these two stories have so much in common yet at the same time are very different. In “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, a yearly sacrifice is done within their small village where someone is stoned to death. This event is seen as normal to the villagers, as…