Shirley Jackson

What is her claim? • Tradition, with its rituals, can continue mindlessly, regardless of reality. o For the village people, the lottery is something to win.  The lottery is tradition and is just accepted.  The lottery brings a full corn harvest (i.e., feeds the village). o The reality: winning is death by stoning to cause an unknown change. What does she use to support her decisions? • The village’s common acceptance of, expectations in, and nostalgia for the lottery and the change it brings…

Traditions have an impact on our lives, influencing our relationships with friends and family in either positive or negative ways. As many probably know on events like christmas or birthdays friends and family come together to give each other presents and spend time together as a form of annual tradition. It is mostly a positive tradition strengthening relationships and lay fights beside. The Lottery also starts in a positiv way. The weather is nice and everybody seems to have fun. But unlike…

“To an Athlete Dying Young” & “Ex-Basketball Player” In Both, “To an Athlete dying Young” and “Ex basketball player”, We experience several poetic devices that compare and contrast eachother in these fairly similar poems. In the poem written by John Updike, “Ex-Basketball Player”, Flick a fictional character is stuck in a loop and his daunting past wrecks his current future. In this poem flicks past shows a young basketball player is praised for setting several records and being a country…

The lottery and Stone throwing in India has many similarities. The lottery is a tradition they did to sacrifice a person and stone them to death, although its fiction it is based on reality. Stone throwing in India is similar to the lottery because people also sacrafice themselves and gets stoned to death by the other oponent. In the following paragraphs I am going to discuss the comparison between The lottery and Stone throwing in India: An annual Bash. The Lottery and Stone throwing…

Similarities and differences span the passage, "Land of the Free" and the poem, "Fireworks". To begin, one similarity is the main idea that each things revolves around. This is a Fourth of July celebration. To prove this point, the poem "Fireworks" describes, "The ending celebration of this year's Fourth of July," ("Fireworks, line 6). This goes to show that it is on the Fourth of July. On the other hand, the selection, "Land of the Free" does not go out and specifically say that it is on this…

A setting can be anything, from being a dark and stormy night, even outer space. Most of the time, the setting plays a big role in how the entire story plays out. The setting is where the entire story begins, even before the first chapter. In Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" the setting is a small town, maybe about 200 people live in this town. This setting fits the story, because the very nature of the lottery requires a small town, too many people in one place lowers the odds, and might mike…

The Lottery. Why do good people make bad choices? “The Lottery” is something that you wouldn’t expect to happen. In the lottery, some people really didn’t want to continue doing it. Some people only care about themselves during the lottery. Did people of the village know that the lottery was bad? People didn’t want to continue the lottery. People of the village wondered why they had to continue the lottery while other villages quit doing it. People of the village didn’t want to vote,…

American society is strongly rooted in the old traditions of its country. The nation has always been a desired destination for immigrants from countries all over the world. Consequently, the traditions practiced by the country as a whole can often be traced back to the roots of one of the many subcultures that make up American culture. One such tradition, practiced for Halloween, is the jack-o’-lantern. The jack-o’-lantern is made by hollowing the inside of a pumpkin and then carving a spooky…

Dystopia means a bad imaginary town or place. The Lottery and Monsters on maple street are examples of dystopia. In the Lottery it has examples of bureaucratic control and inhumane society. Monsters on maple street uses dystopia corporate control and imaginary things that weren’t there. The Lottery is a story about a little town which has a lottery every year and this year Mrs. Hutchinson won the lottery and the town wants to keep the population down and so if you win you die by…

Julie Otsuka’s novel Buddha in the Attic reminds me of the famous metaphor ‘The grass is greener on the other side”. ‘The other side’ is the right side of the fence that seems full of opportunities and possibilities to the folks standing on the left side of the fence. The story is about similar events that took place in the 1920’s in the United States of America which does a masterful job in relating this daring topic. As human beings, we all want to have better lives and living conditions, for…