Stoned

what to do in any situation, people who trust their instincts typically make a better decision. In The Lottery, a small town awaits for the annual tradition of a lottery. Typically lottery’s are a positive thing, though in this case you could get stoned to death. All the fathers of the families draw slips of paper, hoping that they will open it to see a blank paper, without a black dot on it. In this years lottery, the Hutchinson’s got the black dot, none of the townspeople bothered to care…

In the story “The lottery” by Shirley Jackson the point, moral and theme of the story is a dark and cruel because it says that the townspeople stoned her due to the fact that there is overpopulation and it was a brutal way to remove someone from the village which is the irony that this story has. The tone of the story in the beginning of the story seems to be nice and smooth, the mood feels calm and gentle with nothing to fear. For example, in the beginning of the story everybody is happy and…

Shel Silverstein was a well known author, poet, songwriter, and cartoonist. He was born on September 25, 1930, in Chicago. (“bio.com” n.p). Silverstein rarely mentioned his early childhood to anyone, but he did want to be a professional baseball player. (“Bio.com” n.p). Sadly he was horrible at sports so he stuck with sketching in his notebook at the age of twelve. (“Bio.com n.p). Later on down the road Silverstein attended Roosevelt High and graduated in 1948. (“Bio.com” n.p). Silverstein had…

Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson take place in small village where every year they choose a person to be stoned in hopes that they will have a good corn yield. It is shown as a traditional ritual where by people pull out slips of paper and the person to get the paper with a spot on it has to put up his family for selection, the entire family then redraws the slips of paper and the one to draw the spot is stoned, sentence to death. The second story is a play, “Hamlet” written by Shakespeare. It is…

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 lottery, 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, society issues, and barbarism was even practiced in this story. 2. If the story was written with an omniscient point of…

According to Merriam-Webster, totalitarianism is “the political concept that the citizen should be totally subject to an absolute state authority”. In other words, this is a government in which citizens living within have fewer rights and are controlled by an absolute power, and whatever the power demands goes. In some cases, the “government” can be one person (Kim Jong-Un). For example, if the government feels that workers are getting paid too much, they will use their authority to lower wages…

As read in The Lottery, different cultures practice different rituals. It may not be favorable to one country or culture, but to another it could be a normal practice. For example, Pakistan a country located in the Middle East is widely known for practicing honor killings. This stoning ritual can be compared to the stoning’s in the Lottery, done for agricultural gains. The Lottery killings and Pakistani killings are both commonly done by stones. The characters from the lottery believe that…

is depicted as cheerful and peaceful. The adults are casually engaged in small talk and the children are laughing, playing and gathering stones (Jackson 133). There is absolutely no indication that a member of the village is about to be brutally stoned to death. A public execution is the last thing the reader would expect to happen. Jackson used situational irony by describing the setting as optimistic for a sacrificial…

warmth of a full-summer day” (Jackson, 139). The quote and Mr. Summers shows that it takes place in the summer with the man who is in charge being Mr. Summer. Also since Mr. Summers is in charge he “summons” the villagers up to draw papers and to be stoned. Then there is Old Man Warner. Old Man Warner “the oldest man in town” (Jackson, 140) had participated in 70 years of lottery. His name is ironic because he is going around warning people about the lottery. Next there is Mr. Graves, he is the…

community wide tradition where every citizen collect rocks and come together in the city square. The irony of the the title, The Lottery, comes alive when the tradition of selecting a name out of a black box results in some person being selected to be stoned to death rather than winning money or a raffle. This is ironic based on the fact when people hear the phrase “The Lottery” you automatically start thinking of people buying tickets to enter into a state or nation wide raffle where they have…