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    In the short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, it started by everyone drawing a paper from a little black box. If you get the one with the black circle on it your family is eligible to get beaten to death by rocks. After you find out you have the circle everyone from your family draws and whoever gets the black dot know looses. The theme I give this story is power of tradition. In the movie The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, was similar to the short story. It all started out by the little…

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    The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is a very interesting short story. Part of what makes it so interesting is how well it reflects onto real life, even after all of this time. The story involves the people in a small village gathering in the morning on June 27th and drawing papers from a black box. The children have made piles of stones and are playing around them. Tessie Hutchinson’s husband draws the paper with the black dot so that family has to draw again. Tessie draws the one with the black dot…

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    The citizens of a small rural town met together in the square on June 27 for the town lottery. In contrast with other cities, the lottery takes only two hours since there were approximately just 300 people. The children, just finished their school responsibilities and are enjoying summer. Men and after them women gather. Families collect their members and stand together.Mr. Summers is responsible to run the lottery since he has the time to contribute to the village social events. He makes his…

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    England. Shirley Jackson did a wonderful job capturing the attention of many readers, as well as capturing an intense emotional reaction. Whenever discussing death, capital punishment, and or murder there are a variety of emotions that form: resulting in debate and extreme views. The ritual discussed within The Lottery began to be compared to Capital Punishment. Earl Martin author of Tessie Hutchinson and the American System of Capital Punishment, Maryland Law Review, discusses his view of…

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    Born Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, Coco Chanel lived a life of …. When Chanel’s mother died, her father sent her to the Aubazine Shelter which was run by sadistic nuns. However, this is where Coco learned to sew and six years later, at the age of 18, she became a seamstress. In her free time she enjoyed singing at clubs in Vichy and Moulins. A few years later Chanel met, a young english polo player, Arthur Edward “Boy” Capel. A while later Boy Capel helped Chanel, now a certified modiste, open a…

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    In the philosophical short story, “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, she examines the immorality of the human kind. Analogous to “The Lottery,” “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” by Ursula Le Guin demonstrates the perversion of innocence in both stories. Jackson and Le Guin both craft a society of conformity, scapegoatism, and controversy. The ideals in both short stories conflict with societal norms. Similarly, both Jackson and Le Guin idolize conformity in their pieces. Before the…

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    1. The author used third person point of view for this story. She described an un-named village that held a lottery every year. Whoever was picked from the lottery, was stoned to death. The position the author had, knew the outcome of the story. Therefore, she did not use perceptive on any of the characters. She gave a lot of information on following tradition, customs, society issues, and barbarism was even practiced in this story. 2. If the story was written with an omniscient point of…

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    Violence In The Lottery

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    How might the children might be affected by the violence of the lottery. What will Davie Hutchinson be like when he is a teenager? The violence in “The Lottery” could perhaps give the children “PTSD”, because all of the horrors of watching a fellow neighbor or friend, getting stoned to death or even your own mother telling one of your siblings to go and die, and to jump in front of a bus would be very dramatising. So, the history of their past could always come back to them, and maybe start…

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    The Lottery, written by Shirley Jackson, is a short story presenting an event that occurs where someone is chosen from the town to be stoned every year. This “Lottery” that Jackson explains in the story is one that most of the townspeople believe is essential, but some believe to be pointless. The majority of the people in the town believe that this tradition is one that is essential because it has been done every since they remember, but Tessie Hutchinson, who’s family has had the plight of…

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    In the exposition of “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, there are multiple characters who are introduced throughout the entirety of the story. One character that undergoes the most substantial amount of change is Tessie Hutchinson. She goes from being completely on board with the lottery to being totally and completely against it. Tessie Hutchinson develops into a round character by completely opposing of things that she once believed so strongly in. Shirley develops Mrs. Hutchinson by changing…

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