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Imagine waking up one day with the thought of being stoned to death just for your towns good fortune and good harvest. “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson describes a town tradition of human sacrifice by being stoned to death. Sacrificing a life for a tradition. Human sacrifice is the act of killing someone usually for a type of ritual, and that is exactly what “The Lottery” does. How could someone be willing to throw stones at a loved one or a fellow neighbor? These are the ones we care for and…

traditions, or how it affects them or their loved ones. The name of the title makes you think that this story is about drawing numbers and winning a prize, but to my surprise it is about how small villages take part in a tradition, ritual every year to be stoned to death one of their own in a town of approximately three hundred people. The villagers do not know how the lottery began many generations ago, but seems to be more interested in the act, keeping the ritual alive and preserving the…

whoever has the black dot, has to re draw. Mr. Summers’ asks how many people are in their family, than he puts the paper back in the black box. The family that had the black dot, all draw again, and this time, whoever has the black dot, is going to be stoned to…

Since Creon is King he believes, he has the power over everything, and does not need to obey anyone. Antigone the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, siblings; Eteocles, Polynices, and Ismene. Both of Antigone’s brother killed each other in a battle between Thebes and the City of Argos. Antigone to give respect to her brother Polyneices she wants to bury him, but King Creon orders that corpse of Polynices remains unburied because of his fighting against Thebes. Although Creon orders for Polynices…

plant that does not make you feel stoned and has many medical effects. In today’s society, more parents are turning to the use of cannabis for their sick children. They do not want their children to have to undergo surgery or harmful treatments. Many people believe children that are sick should be taking CBD because it has proven medical effects and is better than harmful chemicals. The most natural compound found through marijuana is CBD. It does not make you stoned, as THC would. It can have…

Is there a danger in following tradition? "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson is a story of a village who follow a tradition ever year. The tradition results in death for one of the villagers. Just because it's a tradition and what is known in that town does not mean it has to be. The central idea of the short story can be seen through the conflict in the story. One type of conflict is person vs. society. This is true because at the very end of the story Tessie says "it isn't fair." This displays…

1. The title itself has a positive connotation. A lottery is often seen as a fun, joy filled event, allowing people to test their luck with the chance to win a prize. The title is followed up by a detailed description of a beautiful warm summer day, setting a serene and peaceful tone in the village. From the title and the introduction, an inference may be drawn that this is a story with a happy ending. However, the winner of this lottery is no winner at all, as they are rewarded with death. The…

In today’s society winning the lottery means an improvement to our life where we get some type of reward, usually a big amount of money. However in Shirley Jackson 's short story winning the lottery isn’t all rewarding. In “the lottery” Jackson leads us to believe that one of the “lucky” townspeople will win a grand prize from the lottery but refutes this idea with literary tools such as verbal and situational irony creating suspense, to emphasize the main idea. Jackson uses his advantage as…

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 Lottery,” Jackson seemingly uses ordinary details about the setting and the townspeople to characterize her theme that although society claims to be civilized, and may appear so, it is…

“The Lottery” Formal Essay Throughout history, cruel acts against innocent people through the abandoning of reason and disregard of forthcoming consequences has been associated with cultured traditions, where people follow a larger crowd. In the dystopian short story, “The Lottery”, Shirley Jackson describes a rural society that follows an annual ceremony, where individuals blindly follow the cultured traditions, ultimately stoning an innocent person to death. These barbaric rituals and their…