Response To Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

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The Lottery

Dear Destiney, Today in class we read a short story called “the Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. First, in this story all the people in the village gather around. A guy named Joe came out with a big black box while everyone surrounded him. Next he called out one by one a person from each family to draw a piece of paper out of the box. Everyone calmy did as told. Tessie Hutcherson ran up to crown from home. She joked about how she forgot that the lottery was today. After everyone had drawn they opened their papers. All of them were blank except Bill Hutcherson’s, who had a black dot on it. Bill’s wife, Tessie, started screaming “It isn’t fair!” Then joe placed four blank papers back into the box along with Bill’s black dot paper. Everyone

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The Truth Of Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

What is the purpose of the story, “The Lottery”? Is it just a made up story that Shirley Jackson just thought up? This story talks about a big part of history in its own way, but, is it really just made up, or is it based off of an actual stoning event? The mystery of the story, “The Lottery” is going to finally be solved. Shirley Jackson has always been an author. It seems as if most of her stories are more mystical and/or horrific. Jackson was born in San Francisco, 1916. She had started her…

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Essay on TheLotteryDecember5th

a ladder. Oftentimes people follow superstitions so much that they become rituals. This idea is seen in “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. Ms. Jackson develops her short story using symbols, such as names, objects, numbers and specific times in the setting to further the idea that superstitions overtime become rituals. Ms. Jackson uses a network of allegorical symbolism in “The Lottery” to build around a severe commentary of how tradition works in American culture. Tradition both as a means of…

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Similarities Between Shirley Jackson And Flannery O Connor

3/4/17 “Shirley Jackson vs. Flannery O’Connor” Shirley Jackson and Flannery O’Connor’s stories that we are talking about “The Lottery” and “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” have a lot of similarities like the way they use their religious lifestyle to influence how the stories plot moves. Shirley Jackson uses an extensive amount of symbolism as well as characters names to foreshadow the inevitable. Flannery O’Connor is more involved with imagery to foretell the inevitable once again. Shirley Jackson uses…

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Blind Obedience To Tradition In Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

The Lottery is a short story written by Shirley Jackson about a small village of around 300 people practicing a tradition or a ritual where all families are initially represented by the heads of their families to participate in a lottery. The irony of this, however, is that in modern culture, a lottery has generally been associated with good luck or to be more specific, a big fortune. Winning the lottery has, in modern America, been associated with winning a huge sum of cash after getting the right…

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Symbolism In The Lottery, By Shirley Jackson

“The Lottery,” written by Shirley Jackson in 1948, takes place in a rural village on June 27th where the town folks participate in an annual lottery. As seen in the story, the head of each family draws a slip of paper. The family that chooses the slip with a black dot must sacrifice one family member to a stoning at the end of the particular drawing. Unfortunately for Tessie Hutchinson, she drew the black dot. Drawing the black dot forced almost all the townspeople, including her own friends and…

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