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  • Old Man Warner
    558 words
    The first time I read "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, I thought it would be about someone in a desperate situation who wins a large amount of money. However, after reading the story I was shocked and disgusted like millions of other readers because of what the "lottery" was all about. After my shock wore off I thought about why the author had chosen to be so cynical. It occurred to me that she needed to shock people into changing for the better. She believed that the biggest problem in her soc...
  • Mrs Hutchinson And Mrs Delacroix
    968 words
    27 June bisects the summer solstice and Independence Day, which is a contrast between superstitious paganism and rational democracy. The sunny day and the blooming of flowers indicate a happy, festive occasion. The reader does not realize that The Lottery is not a happy occasion until its tragic end. The reader can never perceive something so holocaust ic happening in 20th Century America. Initially, the reader thinks that the lottery is a modern day lottery in which something of monetary value ...
  • Mr Hutchinson
    1,478 words
    Eric There are many stories in which the author purposely makes the story vague until the end, The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson is a great example of this. Around ten o' clock, June 27th was a very vivid day in the lives of the villagers, It was a beautiful summer day, the wind was slight and the flowers in full bloom. This was in fact an odd setting for the events that will take place in the future. The lottery actually started on the 26th, but this was a rather large town so the actual drawing ...
  • Mrs Hutchinson Scapegoat In The Lottery
    851 words
    Scapegoat, what a strange term. Two words that have no connection being used in the same word. The word escape, which means to flea from danger, and the word goat, which is a common farm animal. How could these go together A scapegoat is someone who is blamed for the mistakes or crimes of another. The term scapegoat may have some similarity to the ancient Greek term trag os ode, which literally means goat song. This connection comes about in the symbolic meaning of the word goat. In biblical tim...
  • Ticket Mr Summers
    464 words
    The Lottery The story takes place in a small town with a population of about three hundred. They are all gathering for a lottery in the Town Square. The lottery has been a tradition since the beginning of the towns history. Some parts of the ritual had been forgotten and they even lost the original black ballot box. But just the same they still have the lottery year after year. The townspeople are gathering in the Town Square waiting for the rest of the residents. Before the lottery may commence...
  • Villager's Obedience To Summers
    791 words
    The Lottery Contains Symbols of the Holocaust Millions of people were brutally massacred in the Holocaust. Because of all the horror and brutality, the Holocaust will be remembered as one of the most notorious if not the most notorious of all crimes. It is a crime that mankind cannot forget and should not forget. As a way of remembering the Holocaust and honoring it's victims authors have been writing about this event. Authors like Shirley Jackson, for instance, wrote the short story entitled th...
  • Mrs Wright
    814 words
    The Effects of Circumstances on Characters in Fiction Many different characteristics come together in a story to make the characters who they are. It can be education, family, economic and social status, the direct environment in which they live, and even their actions throughout the story. All of these things make the main character come to life. For a moment, the character is real to the reader. This brings the reader to feel they " re a part of the story also. In Cather's "Paul's Case", Paul ...
  • Lottery And The Ballad Of Rudolph Reed
    545 words
    The storyline in both The Lottery and The Ballad of Rudolph Reed very distinctly mentions family relationships. Both families obviously looked out for one another. "Mrs. Hutchinson craned he neck to see through the crowd and found her husband and children standing near the front". (318). In The Lottery Mrs. Hutchinson made sure to locate the whereabouts of her kin. .".. the Rudolph Reeds and the children three were too joyous... ". (932). In The Ballad of Rudolph Reed the family seems very close...

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