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thing because you will get stoned to death if you win. To begin, I think “The Lottery” is a tradition, people want to stop but can’t because it's a huge tradition in their village. “Mr. Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but no one liked to upset even as much…

“A Rose for Emily” is not the typical short story one might read. It contains many different features throughout the story, one being the way the terror and suspense starts from the beginning. Another feature the story has to make it unique is the vivid details. The details also start from the beginning of the story. Another feature is the ending. It is not the ending I expected from the when I first started reading. What makes “A Rose for Emily” the best short story is how all the unique…

In the story “ The Lottery” there's two characters that were one of the important ones or had a big role in the story. The two characters were Tessie and Mr. Summers. Winning a lottery will not always be a good thing. Sometimes if you win the lottery you can get a positive thing out of it or if you win the lottery you can get a negative thing or a bad things out of it. Tessie was a women in the middle age. She likes to mess around. Her goals is to survive the lottery. In the story her…

The continuing of the tradition and the people of the town who are partaking in the lottery are to blame on tragedy that the lottery represents. This is because they are the ones who blindly follow and accept the ghastly tradition. With it being a tradition no one seems to want to object or withdraw from the lottery. The people of the town do not eradicate the tradition of the lottery since sacrificing one has been passed down from their ancestors. The lottery box “had been constructed when the…

became an animal when he killed a man. He caused physical harm to Juana, by punching her, and kicking her. He devoted his life or his soul, trying to keep the pearl safe and in his possession. Kino seemed like his old self was gone forever, and this new ignorant, rude had seized control over Kino. Kino, Juana, and Coyotito had fled their town after their house was ransacked and burnt to the ground. He was going to the capital to sell the pearl. If he never had found the pearl, none of this…

literary criticisms that will discussed in detail are Psychological Theory and Historical Criticism and New Historicism. Psychological Theory basically deals with the psychological aspect or the mindset of a person. The second criticism is Historical Criticism and New Historicism, Historical Criticism deals with the time period, place, technology, historical events, and the author’s background. New Historicism on…

"the others" ex. Old Man Warner want them to do things. When we stop questioning the purpose of our actions, and become automated, the chances of falling within the cracks of society, and even evil doings, are quite higher. The villagers saw nothing new, nor out of order, in the brutal, stoning of Tessie Hutchinson. A good example of the town's reactions towards the practice of the lottery comes when the narrator tells us how the practice is so old that its symbolism has been forgotten…

This passage heavily relies on how the plot is portrayed. By having the plot in chronological order, the reader was able to identify how complex the main character Hester was and how she evolved throughout the story. If the events were ordered differently from how the passage is currently structured, it wouldn't have the impact that it currently has The passage begins with Hester asking her husband to allow their children to go to the circus. it continues as Hester attempts to reason with…

Lois Lowry was born on March 20, 1937, in Honolulu, Hawaii. He father was a dentist and army officer, which gave her the chance to also grow up in New York, Pennsylvania and Japan. She is now 79 years old, and has written at least 48 books. She published her first novel, A Summer to Die in 1977. This story was a fictional account of her sister's passing. After the serious novel, Lowry showed her funny side with the book about a suburban preteen and her family in Anastasia Krupnik. This was…

In Shirley Jackson’s short story, The Lottery, the concept is explored that a person can become desensitized to acts or values that he or she is raised with. The values of the people in the village have, at the time of the story’s telling, been in place for many years, as demonstrated by Old Man Warner’s remarks. “Seventy-seventh year I been in the lottery… Seventy-seventh time.” Given his position as the one of if not the single oldest person in the village, it is clear that Old Man Warner…