Shirley Jackson The Theme Of The Lottery

Summers declared the lottery open. There were lists to make up- of heads of families, heads of households in each family, members of each household in each family.” If there really is so much fussing to be done for the lottery to be declared open in the first place, a logical reason is that it is a tradition. To further the point, the text says, “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 (p. 16, lines 74-77).” This goes back to the point that the town doesn’t want to upset the tradition because they don’t even want to get rid of the black box. The author even hints that it is a tradition, “Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones (p. 28, lines

However, the villagers did not forget how to use the stones. Sometimes, traditions are not always meant to be carried on. Especially when they become outdated. Jackson writes, “Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use the stones.” This is stating that they were not even doing it for the original reason. They were only doing it because they were so set on traditions.

When picking the lottery the villagers have the ritual where household goes first and then the family members. Lastly, Tessie Hutchinson one of the mothers/ housewives draws a lottery with the black dots. This does not mean anything amazing this means that she is mark to die. Villagers start throwing stones at her and they stone her to death. The Lottery exist because to the old man warner.

When Wonka put out his hand, none of them even thought twice about shaking his hand. As the entered the factory, one of the parents even said “Is it just me, or does Wonka look a few quarters short of a buck?” This is a dead giveaway that they are not accepting of Willy Wonka. Even though Edward and Wonka do not look the same or act the same as the rest of society, they intend to cause no harm to anyone. They are people too, and want to be accepted as

And I was yet to be proven wrong when I began reading the story as Shirley Jackson presented the setting as a beautiful day and everything seemed to be going smoothly. Then before we know it, by the end of the day the audience is presented by this old fashioned, gruesome death of stoning. This source is most accurately going to be used in my essay, by its citation for irony of the “stoning” itself. I quote “though the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones”. Ironically no one in the community understands why they must kill a citizen each year, but in response, know “exactly” how to throw stones and kill

People are very sentimental about festivals “And such things are very important to our local voters. Had we stopped the Gotmaar this year, for example, the congress party definitely would be sent away in the next elections. (Stone Throwing pg 310)” Tradition could blind people by being destructive and creating victims through social pressure. Shirley Jackson's story ''The Lottery'' portrays an ordinary village with average citizens engaged in a deadly rite, the annual selection of sacrificial a victim by means of a public lottery. Miss Hutchinson who is the victim in the story, by showing the tradition's selfishness results while releasing her from social pressure.

Symbolism is defined as the identification of a noun such as a person, place or thing, but according to the story the symbols include the lottery itself, contraptions used in the lottery and even the people of the town. “The original paraphernalia for the lottery had been lost long ago.”(pg. 1 “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson) This text from the context emphasizes how the lottery has been a traditional behavior for these villagers that have been passed on with origins from the past. The lottery itself symbolizes the way their culture has been set up to be, death, an execution between people who once “lived under the same roof’’ and considering the lottery as some sort of normal

Anse have a good relationship with his kids but he have a different relationship with jewel. Jewel is not his son so for that reason he does tried him the same way as to the other. When jewel buys the horse he tells him that he would not give the horse the food he have because he did not consulted him about buying a horse. when jewel gat home with the horse he saw him and ask him where he have stole the horse because he didn't believe in jewel at all. Jewel character with anse is disrespectful he doesn't care what happen with ance and answer him like he is not even

The elders did not think so. The elders had been participating in the lottery their whole life. This is a very strange thing to me. If I grew up with that, I would think it would be normal too, but from the outside it seems like the worst thing in the world. I felt badly for these elders.

The morning of June 27th in a miniscule town, everyone gathers to continue their yearly tradition of the lottery. The whole village is overwhelmed with excitement, even the children and little Davy, who get to participate. As each family is called up one by one to pick a slip of paper from the ancient black box the