The New Yorker

The last poem, The Humble Bee by Emerson, is a festively enchanting poem incorporating entertainment through its diction. The poem is very playful as there are many instances of fun and cheerful words describing the humble bumble bee. For example, the title could be a pun. Could be a pun because I'm not certain as to when the word Humble was switched for bumble. Bumble, according to a few sources, is not the original name Charles Darwin used. I do not know for certain whether to believe the…

Both “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “First They Came” by Martin Niemoller deals with speaking out and tragic death. In “The Lottery,” Mr. Summers conducted the lottery this year. Over the years, the black box is passed on. Each year, one person gets stoned to death. In “The Lottery,” death comes by lottery and while the people are not like killing a person that they care for, but it is a tradition. In “First They Came”, the main character does not seem to care about others who have died…

Misleading tradition In the short story, “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, people in the village gather around for the annual lottery. In the end, Tessie, the wife of Bill Hutchinson, is the one to receive the black dot on her slip and everyone stones Tessie to death. Readers who read this tragedy may wonder why the community does this brutal event. Originally, the lottery was a sacrifice for the crops to flourish, but as time passed the ritual became a tradition. First off, the…

Fear In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” Most people would like to win the lottery because it has to deal with winning money. In this story the lottery deals with death. The lottery in real life is about winning “big bucks” and becoming a millionaire. In this story, Shirley Jackson uses the lottery to symbolize death for the townspeople. In “The Lottery,” Shirley Jackson uses the black box, the stones, and the black-dotted piece of paper to symbolize the fear of the townspeople. In transition,…

Before: At the beginning of the story, the tone is warm, innocent and childlike. In paragraph 1, it states " The harvesting of the corn and cotton, peanuts and squash, made each day a golden surprise that caused excited little tremors to run up her jaws." This symbolizes that it is autumn, and the harvest season create the colors of the day in a vision of nature in its beauty. As the story continues, Myop's excitement becomes contagious. In paragraph 2, it states " She felt light and good in the…

In 1948, Shirley Jackson wrote the famous short-story that would be read in classroom across America, called “The Lottery”. “The Lottery” is a short story about a small village who believe in a tradition that once a year someone will be picked at random, from a lottery, to be stoned by the whole village. It doesn’t say for sure why they do this but readers can assume that it is a traditional sacrifice to have good harvest in the fall due to Old Man Warner saying, “Lottery in June, corn be heavy…

Last week in our class we read and watched the short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. The story has a main character, Tessie Hutchinson, and her family, who “win” the lottery. This story takes place in a small village. The people there kept their lottery, even though they could have gotten rid of it, because they wanted to stick with their traditions of ritualistic violence. This tradition was first put into use because in the past there were human sacrifices in order to get good crops for…

Davey Hutchinson Now I'm Davey Hutchinson and I was born in a rural town. My town still has the tradition of "The Lottery". I vaguely remember my mother was picked in the lottery and was killed when I was three years old. As I have grown up, I started to understand how inhumane this "lottery" is. Each year somebody I have known has died in the lottery. Last year my best friend was selected and he was stoned just like his brother before him. After my friend died, I went…

One can see by examining the poetic justice of the murder at the end, and the foreshadowing of the strange murder weapons, the rocks, in The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, that this story is a classic archetypal horror story. Firstly, one can see that when Tessie Hutchinson, the wife of Bill Hutchinson, was the only one late for the lottery, she wins the lottery, and then is killed. This is an example of poetic justice. Poetic justice, also known as Karma, is the fitting or deserving punishment or…

Lottery by Shirley Jackson is about a small village in the 50s with a sinister tradition. Every year they have a lottery where you don't want to win. Instead of a hefty cash reward you are stoned to by not only your fellow villagers but your family and friends. They are still doing the lottery because they think this will help with growing crops and they don't want to embrace change so they still believe in this far-fetched story. It was once a sacrifice but turned into a recurring tradition.…