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theme that Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” revolves around. In her short story, Jackson presents a village in which an annual lottery is held on the 27th of June. Instead of receiving something rewarding, the “winner” is actually the loser and is stoned by the community. The story reflects on the brutality and underlying American values and how we are so susceptible to control and authority. Through the symbols presented in this short story, the reader better understands Jackson’s view that we…

The Lottery Shirley Jackson In “The Lottery,” Shirley Jackson uses irony and satire to show the selfishness of one character and the idiocy of sacrifice or of blindly following tradition. The morning of June 27th was a dreadful morning. It was the day of the Lottery. The Lottery is anonymous drawing to sacrifice a villager. It could be anyone! You’d think this to be a very scary and horrifying event, but the villagers accepted their fate a long time ago and got over it. The Lottery causes many…

It is the last term for love that the bible mentions and is defined as the best of all three loves that exist. Agape love is totally consuming, devouring all those who part take in it. This is what Jesus felt for all humanity even when humanity stoned, beat and berated him. His love and his Father, the Lords love, was so consuming and exponential that Jesus gave his life for his people no matter what they had done. Agape represents God 's love for his son, all his creations such as human beings…

blindly following tradition is the common feature that both The Hunger Games and “ The Lottery” have. The characters in these two stories never doubt about traditions and change them. In “The Lottery”, every year one of the citizens in the village is stoned to death by the lottery. Everyone comes to the square to participate, which looks like a routine. Mr. Summers says “Well now, guess we…

Mary Beard’s “The Public Voice of Women” describes how a woman can struggle to speak her ideas and opinions in society today and throughout history. She gives examples of her own and other woman’s experiences that she has witnessed as examples from books, such as the Odyssey, and history in general. On twitter, Beard experiences the hardships of trying to voice her ideas as a woman when she is constantly bombarded with tweets telling her to shut up, threatening her with murder, rape, and other…

the true meaning of the lottery. The title of the story “the lottery” is very ironic because in normal lotteries the winner ultimately wins a “prize” of something positive such as money whereas in this story the winner wins the “prize” of getting stoned to death by fellow townspeople. The setting of “The Lottery” also contains irony because the town is assumed to be normal and peaceful but harbors the tradition of senseless murder. Even though Mrs. Hutchinson arrives late, she is the first to…

Within the short story the “The Lottery”, there is many different examples of symbolism. The story expresses how some people are not willing to change. They have a very different tradition and the townspeople are not willing to change it, even if it will end up benefiting their community as a whole. They have tradition and many objects that symbolize many of the things that they stand for. In the story morals are tested as well as how people interpret different traditions and the lengths they…

search but are able to have multiple partners while chimpanzees go out searching for partners. In society and around the world, it is never believed it is okay in any culture that a women can have multiple sex partners and not be judged, in some cases stoned or killed. They are brought to believe that women have less of a sex drive than men. But even though men have the higher sex drive women are more punishable for the act of their minimal sex drive. But for either it is punishable to commit…

closed the villagers retaliate and cause damage to the school. A similar symbol is used in “The Lottery.” In this short story the lottery itself is the symbol of tradition. The townspeople gather every year to draw a piece of paper to see who will get stoned to death. These individuals seem to have no remorse for what they are doing simply because it is tradition. Many of these people have simply been raised to believe that this is what they have to do. In the real world certain individuals…

Reza Aslan Challenges ‘the Muslim Stereotype’ With extremism on the rise, the insinuation of Islam promoting violence and aggression is more and more common. Reza proves why “painting with a single brush” can be so wrong. The Friday night preceding this interview, comedian Bill Mahar equated the extremist group ISIS to the greater majority Muslim countries of the world. Reza Aslan appeared on CNN to discuss Mahar’s comments with two of their anchors and to respond to their over-simplified…