Shirley MacLaine

A story is “an account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment” according to Google. Stories are made to entertain the readers or watchers or audience. That is the main objective of an author, to entertain the common folk. In a short story all of the suspense is very short, and is up front. In a novel, the author can grab the readers by the throat and hold on for a very long while. If the author doesn’t keep the readers hooked, then the author has failed. “I recognized the…

Many stories consist of foreshadowing that readers do not notice. One of those stories is “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. This story has a twisted, demented ending, but if you pay close enough attention, you can use the foreshadowing that Jackson presents to conclude what might occur. In “The Lottery”, Jackson uses foreshadowing to allow the reader to make logical conclusions about what is to come to this town; she uses this technique to add suspense. In the second paragraph, Jackson creates…

Everyone hungers for some fun no matter where they live and the Six Flag Amusement Park commercial visibly displays and exemplifies this. The usual summer of a middle class town is turned upside down in the right direction, as an astonishing guess arrives and entices the town with his unexpected golly. In this paper I will evaluate and analyze that the purpose of the Six Flags commercial was to influence friends and families to go to the amusement park by explaining who the sender and receiver…

Returning to a place where one once experienced an event after several years, allows for the regeneration of memories specifically those from childhood. The article “Once More to the Lake” written by E.B. White, is about a man, now grown up, who goes back to the lake he and his Dad visited every summer when he was a child. Now, as a father himself, he ventures back with his own son. The stage it set for a trip down memory lane, filled with reminiscing about one owns childhood, as the sights,…

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is a very bold, provocative story that has astonished and entertained readers and scholars since its publication in 1948. Since then Jackson’s short story has become one of the most famous short stories in American literature. This is in part due to its creative message and peculiar story with symbolism and hidden meanings which leads to many perspectives. “The Lottery” is a satire of religious traditions and conveys the fact that blindly following and holding on…

The Lottery a short story published by Shirley Jackson in 1948 in The New Yorker magazine. The Lottery takes place in a small town or village of 300. On June 27th is when The Lottery takes place, on a warm sunny day when the grass is a rich green color and flowers are blooming. In the town square by the bank and the post office where people gather for The Lottery. Kids are collecting rocks while people wait impatiently for Graves and Summers to set up The Lottery. While waiting some people were…

few weeks I’ve read three short stories. I'm going to be discussing the conflicts within the three short stories. Obviously conflicts occur being most likely the climax. Im going to describe the events and characteristics of the conflict. Within Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” the story from the beginning hints to the conflict within the story. The opening scene shows kids picking up rocks to be used fatally during the end of the story. Fear is a heavy emotion coming off as waves from a crowd of…

Shirley Jackson’s short story, “The Lottery”, takes place in a small village, and portrays the villages people as the protagonists of the story, and uses the ritual of the lottery as the antagonists. The lottery is where there is a box with some tickets, and a family is called up to pick from this box. On one of the tickets is a black mark, whoever picks this ticket would be pelted by rocks to death. The symbols in the short story, “The Lottery”, communicates the story’s meaning by symbolising…

Jackson’s use of symbolism throughout the story is a key element to expressing the idea of practicing outdated traditions in modern society.The lottery highlights the ignorance that is carried through the practice of old traditions, specifically human sacrifice. As the plot revolves around a town who is too stubborn to let go of the “lottery” the towns people use the black box as a physical representation of the lottery to carry out the deed. The black box signifies the central theme of…

The Struggle for Change Traditions are difficult to be in conflict with because they are so deeply rooted into our history and daily lives. Shirley Jackson analyzes in her short story “The Lottery” that people will unquestionably follow traditions, them being good or bad. The people in “The Lottery” seem like a perfectly normal community until readers find out about their unethical costumes. We can conclude that it is difficult for the people of “The Lottery” to change or abolish their taboo…