Shirley Phelps-Roper

Traditions are known all around the world, from ham on Christmas, going to grandma’s for Thanksgiving, or maybe even a lottery in a small village like in Shirley Jackson’s story The Lottery. Every June 27th a lottery is conducted in a village to sacrifice someone for the good of others and crop growth. The Hutchison family drew the black dot from the box and after each member of their family drew, Tessie was the one who drew the black dot again and was sacrificed. The tradition of the lottery…

Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco, California on December 14, 1916. Jackson began to write poetry in her teenage years and developed from there. Around the age of 16 her family moved west and she began to write up to 1000 words daily. In 1951 Jackson began to incorporate gothic style writing into her short stories and novels. Many of her short stories have been converted to dramas because of their unexpected story lines. Years after publication, Jackson’s stories are still considered…

birthday, she was set for life without doing any of the work to earn the money she just got it handed to her. The lottery wasn’t like this in this short story, it wasn’t a good thing, it was actually a dreadful to win the lottery. “The Lottery”, by Shirley Jackson uses irony that reveals what the effects of blindly following traditions actually causes society. The lottery isn’t what it seems to be in this story, family’s turning on other families just so that their family doesn’t get hurt in…

Hannah Jernigan¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬ Prof. Vinson Jaye ENG 102 TV401 “The Lottery” 11 June 2018 “The Lottery” 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 black wooden box, 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,…

“The Lottery” is a short story written by Shirley Jackson, and published in 1949. Just a couple of years after World War II, where many people was scared with lost loved ones due to the war. Many believed that the story should not have been published because of it gruesome ending and “psychological shock.” In the Journal Article “ ‘The Lottery’: Symbolic Tour de Force,” Helen E. Nebeker looks in depth into the story “The Lottery” pointing out the themes and symbolisms heavy meaning of the story…

Many people have forgotten about the cruel and violent events occurring in today’s society. “The Lottery” is a story that helps us to remember that traditions carry through the years whether good or bad. Though Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” depicts the unexpected violence of traditions in a society, the traditions in Iran promote an unjust system of punishment that oppresses women. The traditions with some major violence, as well as severe unfairness, are taking its toll in Iran. Hutchinson…

Mohd Asyraf Md Daud Professor Margene L. Petersen English 103 3rd May 2015 Project 1 Dangers of Blindly Following Tradition “The Lottery” is a dystopian short story written by Shirley Jackson on 1948. The author introduces the main character, Tessie Hutchinson in the middle of the story. At the beginning of the story, everyone in the village seems very excited to do the lottery. Tessie who came late also seems excited and cannot wait for the event to start until she is the one who drew a marked…

“The Lottery” Essay Usually, when you win a lottery it changes your life for the better. In The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, this is not the case. Shirley Jackson was born in 1916. When she was older she moved to a small city in Vermont, where she was not accepted. Many believe her time in Vermont was where the bases of this story came from. This story shows a small town that follows a tradition called “the lottery” in which the chosen gets stoned to death as a sacrifice . In her short story “The…

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a story about a small village who continues to blindly follow a violent age old tradition. “The Lottery” proves that there can be certain dangers in following traditions. Throughout “The Lottery” there are various examples that display how the villagers are blindly following the traditions in which they have been passed. Old Man Warner, an elder among the group, acts as symbolism for tradition in this story because he has participated in seventy-seven…

The Hunger Games and the Lottery in their respective worlds serve the same purpose: to oppress and control the lower class of each society. This is seen largely in three similarities between the works; both involve the murder of someone from the lower class in the event, both require their citizens to be casual about the event, and both are protected tradition. To summarize the Hunger Ganes and the Lottery severe a simar puporse in each world. Onee simularity the events have are that death is…