Shirley Jackson

ACAHRYA P. C. RAY CASE STUDY COMPETITION KUMARTULI- INDIA’S ONLY POTTER’S TOWN BY RASHI AGARWAL IBSK INTRODUCTION Kolkata – “The City of Furious, Creative Energy” is a city of matchless culture, traditions, food and festivals. During the month of October, the colorful and festive spirit of this city can be relished when the biggest festival, Durga Puja, is celebrated. The first idol worship of Goddess Durga in recorded history is said to be celebrated in the late 1500…

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” begins in a small town of 300 and on the 27th of June the townspeople assemble once a year for the lottery. Mr. Summers conducts the lottery and places an old worn out black box that’s older than all citizens on a stool, which contains slips of paper. Detailed list is made of each family, Mr. Summers takes note of the ones unable to attend and the lottery begins with the head of each household taking a slip of paper. They check their slips of paper and the one who…

Before: At the beginning of the story, the tone is warm, innocent and childlike. In paragraph 1, it states " The harvesting of the corn and cotton, peanuts and squash, made each day a golden surprise that caused excited little tremors to run up her jaws." This symbolizes that it is autumn, and the harvest season create the colors of the day in a vision of nature in its beauty. As the story continues, Myop's excitement becomes contagious. In paragraph 2, it states " She felt light and good in the…

In “The Lottery” there are many different literary devices we can figure out in the specific storyline of the lottery and in its themes. “The Lottery” focuses on an extremely heavy amount of suspicion between different social classes in the story. This suspense is a literary device that can be heavily seen through the story. There are many subtle hints that lead to a shocking conclusion that what these villagers do to each other every year is seen as a very old ritualistic tradition. Old man…

Davey Hutchinson Now I'm Davey Hutchinson and I was born in a rural town. My town still has the tradition of "The Lottery". I vaguely remember my mother was picked in the lottery and was killed when I was three years old. As I have grown up, I started to understand how inhumane this "lottery" is. Each year somebody I have known has died in the lottery. Last year my best friend was selected and he was stoned just like his brother before him. After my friend died, I went…

At first, the story was very complicated to understand, because the author is very descriptive and while I was reading the text, I had a presentiment of uncertainty. Then, I took my time to read it and now, I think it’s clearer in my head. Normally, the lottery is a fun event, but not in this short story. It really surprised me that we are talking about stoning and death at the end of it. I think the author wanted us to understand what was really happening, only in the end. At the beginning,…

According to Merriam Webster Dictionary a scapegoat is a person who is unfairly blamed for something that others have done. The word "scapegoat" originates from a practice in the Old Testament in which the high priest put his hands on a goat that has been chosen by lot and, in the belief that the person sin has been put upon the goat. The goat is then turned loose in the wilderness. Consequently, the concept was widened to take account of human beings who had been taken away from their…

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…