Shirley Phelps-Roper

Sean Blumlein Mr. Flood English 11 H 20 March 2018 Light Prevails in the Night People hear the word light and they often think of physical light, but the word light has many underlying interpretations and meanings. Whether in the form of wavelengths, the constant struggle of good vs. evil, representing life, a guide, a force, or to describe speed, light is almost always a positive that often relates to a person being on the pathway to happiness. The many elements and meanings of…

thing. You might receive money, a car, or other kinds of valuables. This is definitely not the case for the winner in the “Lottery.” The winner is more like the loser and is unfortunately stoned to death by her fellow friends and family members. Shirley Jackson’s shocking story, “The Lottery,” explores the theme of man’s inhumanity to man through the use of irony and foreshadowing. In the beginning of the story, the setting is a very influential part to the theme of inhumanity in “The Lottery.”…

How are murders and violence defined in societies? In both “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell acts of murder and violence are displayed. According to Kennedy and Gioia (2015), “Short stories show rather than tell” (p. 13). Both “The Lottery” and “The Most Dangerous Game” do just that. The short stories share similarities such as a common tone, shared symbolism, and violence, but differ in purpose and character structure. The first short story,…

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is about a village of people that every year they gather in the square to hold the lottery because they believe if they sacrifice the winner it will help grow the crops and make them feel better. To find the winner, Mr. Summers puts together the families and then they come up to choose a card with a family name on it and the family chosen then comes up and each family member chooses a card and the one with a black dot wins the lottery. Readers can learn that…

A sad time in my life made me realize how ungrateful and unwitting we as people can really be. It was a bright and sunny Sunday; the wind was flowing and keeping it cool. My family and I decided to go to a flea market to look around and see some livestock. It was a normal and unusual day, nothing seemed out of place... sadly I was very mistaken. My cousin and I were wandering around the flea market exploring. There was such a variety of animals and items to see. I went walking near the dogs…

Ties of Freedom Short fiction is very interesting and thought provoking literature. Some works may have few themes or main ideas, and other may have several embedded into the writing. A shared theme between the short fiction stories, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and “The Story of an Hour,” by Kate Chopin, is freedom and confinement. The protagonist in these stories are both women who have trouble with a controlling husband. They do not have identical situations, but the…

except for the characters in the short story “The Lottery”. In this tale, the villagers in a small community are participating in their annual lottery. However, it turns out that the winners may win a lot less than they hoped for. In “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, the author uses symbolism to foretell what would happen later on in the story. In the beginning the author uses the black box to embody the feeling of terror in the villagers. For example, “Families started to murmur when Mr.…

CHESS- Rosario Castellanos “If we don’t end war, war will end us”(H.G Wells). Castellanos was a poet during the 50’s who wrote following the 2nd world war. She was interested in political issues like helping peasants get land. “Chess” is about two chess players entering a mental war but not knowing why. They started as friend and ended up wanting to destroy each others. Now they’re sitting and waiting to figure out how to eliminated the other side but no one ever wins. The theme of “Chess”…

Games by Suzanne Collins, Is about a post war society divided into 12 districts who each send two teenagers to fight to the death once a year in The Capital. The Capital runs the games and reap the fruits of the 12 district's labor. The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson is about a small American town in the 1800s, that keeps order and sanity by selecting one town member to be stoned to death each year. Anyone can be selected, even children. In the end, everyone, including family members joins in the…

Stoning Ages Around the same time every year someone gets stoned, in the short story “The Lottery” By Shirley Jackson. The story takes place in a small town in New England. Every year a “lottery” as the villagers call it is held, one person is to be randomly chosen to be stoned to death by the people in the village. The lottery has been around for over seventy years by the townspeople. Shirley Jackson uses symbolism in this short story by using objects, names, and the setting to tell the…