An Analysis Of Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

At the start of the day, I’d be very scared. Most likely at my age, I would have already been married and away from my immediate family. Heading to the sight of where this ritual, this lottery, occurs would feel very unreal every single time. The uneasiness that had settled in the air would be lifted by light gossiping by the women “The woman, wearing faded house dresses and sweaters, came shortly after their menfolk. They greeted one

Here, Shirley shows how someone can take tradition so seriously they do not even want to change the box they have used since they have started the major event they participate in. The villagers have had the same black box for a while and do not want to change anything about it because the tradition for the box is so strong. “The original paraphernalia for the lottery had been lost long ago, and the black box now resting on the stool had been put into use even before Old Man Warner, the oldest man in town, was born. Mr. Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box” (Jackson 1). Therefore, if someone has something

. .”) when I was even younger than that. I coached the sport for like eighteen years straight until Mr. Daly, our recently retired athletic director, talked me into taking over the girls’ basketball program. For Pete’s sake, I still PLAY the game. The Rebels, my team in the Pioneer Valley Over-Thirty Baseball League, won its second championship in four years a couple weeks ago, and I played shortstop and third base, pitched a little and batted cleanup most games.

Everyone usually has a family tradition that they do every year. Every year my family celebrates Christmas during Christmas we wake up and open gifts and go to my grandparents house for dinner and usually open more gifts. In my short story “The Lottery” their tradition is putting names into a box and if your name gets called and there is a black dot on your slip,you get rocks thrown at you until you die. In The Lottery Jackson uses the black box to symbolize death and if you're going to die. In “The Lottery” Jackson uses a black box to symbolize death, Jackson says “The original paraphernalia for the lottery had been long lost ago,and the black box now had been resting on the stool.

The children collecting the stones foreshadows that something bad will happen. The second example of foreshadowing in “The Lottery,” is when the Hutchinson family is chosen. Immediately after, Tessie Hutchinson starts complaining. She says, “You didn’t give him time enough to take any paper he wanted. I saw you.

In “The Lottery”, Mr. Summers does not plan it in advanced, he wants to do as little as possible with the lottery, so he waited until the last minute to draw the black dot. The townsperson, Mr. Summers is in charge of the drawing. It is all random, there is blank slips with one slip with a black dot and when that one lucky winner gets the one with the black dot on it, they got stoned. “The Lottery” and The Hunger Games contrast in how they select the people from either the town or the districts. They differ in how he or she actually got picked and how they got killed.

Kit meets Hannah through all of her sadness when Mr.Wood told her she could not keep most of her cloths and must look poor"for God." Some of the other events are Kit loses all her wealth and her grandfather so she moves to Wethersfield. When at Wethersfield she meets a lady named Hannah who everyone in town believes to be a witch. Then Hannah helps Kit with wise words and makes her feel better when she loses some of her fancy clothes from her bags because of Matthew Wood. After all the events near the end of the story Hannah skips town,ordinarily do with people believing she 's a witch.

It was his 77th time participating and he is threatened by change. When he hears that the village next door does not do it, he states, “Pack of crazy fools. Listening to the young folks, nothing’s good enough for them” (Jackson 423). He accepts tradition and is superstitious. He believes that if the lottery is not done, then the villagers will have to be hunter-gatherers, “The ritual is the cement that keeps the society from slipping back into a brutish nature” (Barlow).

Bill Shoemaker has overcome many obstacles in his career, including breaking his leg and being in a serve car accident. Although he went through those rough times Shoemaker never gave up on racing. Bill actually came back from these accidents and broke another record for wins in 1970. Shoemaker benefited around 123 million dollars over his 40 year career(Shoemaker becomes oldest). Shortly after retiring and becoming the oldest man to win a Kentucky Derby Bill Shoemaker passed away.

“The Lottery” is a short story by Shirley Jackson. The story commences with a vivid description of the summer day in the town, giving us the idea that the day will be good. When the lottery begins, families begin to draw slips of paper from the black box. Finally, when Bill Hutchinson withdrew the slip of paper with the black dot, his wife Tessie starts yelling that it wasn 't fair. When the second drawing was held only among the Hutchinson’s family, Tessie gets the same piece of paper with the dot and is stoned to death.

She has been a stranger to herself for six years, not knowing about her racial identity. She had never thought of herself as black because she has lived with white people all her life. It takes is one photograph with her friends for her to find out her skin color. In the book it states, “Ah was wid dem white chillun so much till Ah didn’t know Ah wuzn’t white till Ah was round six years old. Wouldn’t have found it out then, but a man come long takin’ pictures and without askin’ anybody, Shelby, dat was de oldest boy, he told him to take us.

While information on his mom was not listed. When Grover was only 4 years old his family moved from New Jersey to Fayetteville, New York. Grover wasn’t just a boring boy he pulled a prank where he had pulled his neighbors front gates off and left. Grover attended Fayetteville Academy but never made it to college. He sadly dropped out of school to take a job at a general store to earn $50 a year.

He doesn’t want to use any of Janie’s money she has. When Tea Cake and Janie first met, he would do things with her. The book says, “It was so crazy digging worms by the lamp light and setting out for Lake Sabelia after midnight that she felt like a child breaking rules” (102). Janie’s first two husbands, Logan and Joe would not do anything fun with Janie. Logan would have Janie working in the kitchen or the field and Joe would have her working in the store and have her as a “trophy wife” to look at.

Brother Matthias was unsure of letting Babe go, because babe was only nineteen years old; he was still a minor (Match 19). He officially left school February 27 for baseball. However, Babe never forgot St. Mary’s, and to thank Brother Matthias, Babe bought him a Cadillac every year (Macht 19). Because of his strength, he was the best lefthanded pitcher at that time, and his team won eighty-seven games in 1915 and 1919. His team also won three world series games.

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