Summary Of Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

Poor Behavior in “The Crucible” Ever wonder why people dies in The Crucible? The impact of Poor Behavior is exhibited throughout The Crucible. Most of the characters act badly.

Due to the mass hysteria the blame quickly fell to the rich Jews. It is stated that, “Jews throughout the world were reviled and accused in all lands of having caused it [the plague] through the poison which they are said to have put into the water and the well” (Document 7). The nation was in need of answers so when the Jews were pointed out as a scapegoat all of Europe followed. Though sadly the blame was not the worst thing to befall the Jewish people. In Document 7 it is stated that, “On Saturday - that was St. Valentine’s Day - they burnt the Jews on a wooden platform in their cemetery.

At the climax of the story, Jackson delivers this huge surprise to strengthen the effect of the theme. Similar to Shirley’s tone, the tradition remains largely unchanged, carrying the main idea throughout generations. Juxtaposing the dark news of stoning a person to an objective tone, Jackson undermines the inherent compliance to long-standing traditions in isolated, small villages. While all the “villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box” (267), they continue the senseless act without contemplating its origins or

Upon reading the end of “The Lottery”, there is no doubt that one can see a clear picture of humanity and brutality it can cause. The act of stoning is violent, it is a killing which allows the killer to see and be seen by the victim. Throughout history stoning has been used, “So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first” (The New King James Bible John 8:7). Additionally, the brutality and horror highlighted by the fact that the stoning requires the participation of the entire village, including family members of the victim and children, it also includes the selection process as well.

Another similarity is all of the characters had committed some form of murder giving the murderer a “reason to kill” in their mind. Lastly, the same mystery person sent all of the characters to their deaths to said locations, Mr. U. N. Owen, causing suspense and adding mystery throughout both the novel and movie.

The main symbols displayed in the lottery are the rocks, the black box, as well as the stool. The rocks symbolize the method of death. Stoning was a common way of killing people who had to pay a price of some sort. However, they would want to make the experience painful and drawn-out.

Most of the time, the SS lashed the Jews and publicly tortured them for no reason. For example, on pg. 65, Wiesel expounds, “Twenty- four, twenty- five!’ It was over. I had not realized it, but I had fainted.

Putnam wants more land for himself and the only way to get is from his neighbors. To achieve this, he is willing to falsely accuse his neighbors of witch-craft. Another example of a character that portrays selfishness in The Crucible is Judge Danforth. Danforth and Parris finally realize that Abigail Williams lied to them and the court. Readers can conclude he is selfish when he says, “You misunderstand sir; I cannot pardon these when twelve are already hanged for the same crime.

Off the back, out of all the characters in The Pardoner’s Tale, I chose the mysterious old man for my symbol. I beleive that the symbol i drew is a very beautiful picture of a ugly old man, or death himself. In my symbol you’ll see that the old man or Death’s body is standing over the rioters death; money. The symbol i made resembles half the dark face of death, and another half of a light gloomy, wrinkled, old man wrapped in a hood. Secondly, one of the main events were the three rioters looking for death, but ending up finding their own death.

So why did they want to mass murder all the Jews? We now know how much Jews had to go through this time in history. Because seperation occured, the Jew lost their their belongings: this did not compare to witnessing the murders of their loved

Mr. Tate was right... it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?” (Lee, p. 276). Scout plainly said that Boo Radley is a mockingbird and the events in the story prove it to be true.

Grendel Grendel was the monster that was killing all of Hrothgar’s men. Grendel was evil, smart, and stealthy making him dangerous. Beowulf stopped Grendel but not before he killed many of people. Grendel was a descendant of Cain who was punished for killing his brother Abel. Since Grendel was born from evil he could never be happy which angered him when he heard all the people in Herot having a good time.

The Masons who were responsible for learning these phrases and teaching them to other brothers had to take an oath. This would have been convenient for the Templars because lack of trustworthiness led to a death by burning. It is only appropriate that an oath breaker should have a worse punishment than a slow death. This brings forth the oath of initiation for a Master Mason. In it, he swears that if he breaks his oath that his “body be cut into two pieces and that his bowels be burned to ashes.”

In “The Lottery” the resolution to the main conflict is when Mrs. Hutchinson is fatally stoned to death by her neighbors. The resolution reveals the theme that seemingly normal, or everyday people can commit a twisted, gruesome act of violence. In “To build a fire” a man new to the Yukon area began traveling by himself despite warnings of a native. The dies due to the harshness of the weather and his last words were “You were right, old hoss; you were right.” This reveals the stories theme because it shows to acts respect those who are more experienced and take others advice into mind.

One by one, the Misfit orders his henchmen to take a member of the family into the woods and kill them in cold blood. However, the reader is confounded when the Misfit reveals that he was falsely imprisoned for his father’s death. O’Connor states: “The Misfit sneered slightly. ‘Nobody had nothing I wanted’ he said…’It was the head doctor at the penitentiary said what I had done was kill my daddy but I know that for a lie.