The Lottery

The book the lottery is about a village that’s very agricultural. They do the lottery once a year and the Pearson that won the lottery was sacrificed to make a better growing season. This is how it works they all put their last name in a box and they mixed the names up and then they all got called to come up and draw. Their name and if you picked your family goes up and then a guy puts all of their family members name in the box and then if you were picked you were stoned to death because they…

A community is sort of like a big family in the sense that the members of it trust each other and help each other. Three books that support this sense of community are The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe, The Veldt by Ray Bradbury, and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. Although the word ‘community’ is almost always seen as a positive idea, community can be a negative force when the people within the community have a need for revenge, are too trusting, and are forced into one way of…

Jackson advocates for open-mindedness. The villagers acknowledge that “some places have already quit lotteries” (Jackson 4), which reveals that it is very much possible to dispose of the tradition without consequences. Thus, as previously stated, the first step in disposing of the outdated traditions, practices, and ideas is to acknowledge that they are there and to consider the fact that they may be unjust. If people have grown up with the idea that something is right and there is nothing more…

Within the state of Virginia scratcher lottery ticket sales have soared over the last two years. Record high lottery ticket sales have shown that the lottery has generated 1.8 billion dollars in revenue, and at what cost to the tax payer and their chances of really winning big. According to the Pollard Banknote and the Virginia Lottery, 2015 was a very successful year for the lottery in Virginia. Within the year of 2015 the lottery alone sold more than one billion in scratcher tickets for the…

Eng-102 April Dolata October 15, 2014 Short Story Paper The villagers of a small town gather together in the town square on June 27 for the town lottery. Every year on June 27 the lottery is held and everyone must be in attendance if they are physically capable. In other towns, the lottery takes longer, but there are only 300 people in this village, so the lottery takes only two hours. Village children, who have just finished school for the summer, run around collecting stones. They put the…

The Lottery is a short story written by Shirley Jackson in 1948. When she wrote the piece Jackson claimed that her purpose in writing it was “to shock the story’s readers with a graphic demonstration of the pointless violence and general inhumanity of their own lives,”(263). This piece accomplishes that goal through the use of suspense to shock the reader. This piece is widely regarded as one of the best examples of a suspense story and was one of the original stories to have a surprise ending.…

Is Lottery a Good Idea? Even though there are not so many newspaper articles online to criticize the concept of lottery, most articles that use the concept of lottery apply it in a negative or nearly negative sense. Some people cannot live without having their morning coffee or reading a sports column, while others prefer to have their problems solved in an actual way without a clear assumption of either winning or losing. In fact, many people prefer lottery instead of dealing with their…

Innocence “The Lottery” Myungsub Eum English School of Canada Crime Disguised as Innocence “The Lottery” Horror writers ponder how to make the tension more tricky-not directly. Supernatural horrors are interesting either, but fear in daily life is more likely to be empathetic. Shirley Jackson is one of the most famous writers for creating this fear. He contains such daily fears in his works, particularly in this writing - the name is The Lottery. The theme of The…

Once a year everyone in town gather in town square for the annual lottery. As the people begin to approach the old black damaged box on the stool located in the middle of town their hearts begin to grow heavy. Many people would think of the lottery as something that you would enjoy but that’s not the case in this situation. Imagine walking towards a black box knowing that just a tiny slip of paper could determine the life of one human being. Who knew that one small slip of paper could cause…

“The Lottery” is a short story written by Shirley Jackson. It is about a lottery that takes place once a year in a small village. Many are wondering why they do a lottery so this paragraph is going to show you crucial evidence on why the event takes place. The reason why the villagers "have" to have a lottery is simply because the lottery had become a tradition that had been followed since the time of the villagers' ancestors. As a result, the villagers had become so used to repeating this…