Brief Summary Of 'The Lottery' By Shirley Jackson

In the short story, The Lottery, Jackson applies Mr. Summers’ character to highlight his significant role in the village’s life as a whole and more particularly in the lottery. It is also significant to note that the character is also a deep irony in relation to the plot of the story. Mr. Summers is the most notable figure and an important person of all the people who manage the lottery. The lottery is held on June 27th, which is noted as being a full summer day. He is responsible for running most of the things that the village collectively performs since he has the energy and time and is devoted to the civic activities. This is one of the rationales why his character is pivotal to the development of the plot of the story.

In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, the small village, at first, seems to be lovely, full of tradition, with the townspeople fulfilling their civic duties, but instead this story is bursting with contrast. The expectations that the reader has are increasingly altered. The title of this short story raises hope, for in our society the term “lottery” typically is associated with winning money or other perceived “good” things. Most people associate winning a lottery with luck, yet Jackson twists this notion around and the luck in this village is with each of the losers.

Shirley Jackson foreshadows the ending of the story with the stones. At the very beginning of the story the kids were said to “made a great pile of stones in one corner of the square” and the kids were also “selecting the smoothest and roundest stones”. These stones would be later used to be thrown at Tessie at the end of the story because she had won the lottery. Shirley made the stones make the kids were just messing around and having fun with rocks but he didn't clarify what the pile of stones purpose of them was just left them be and went on with the story like the stone pile had nothing to do with the story. After the drawing and Tessie won she knew what was going to happen and in the story it said “The children had stones already. And someone gave little Davy Hutchinson a few pebbles”. This let the reader know that the kids were preparing this at the beginning to throw the stones st the winner.

Shirley Jackson is to be considered one of the best authors of the 1900’s. Her style of writing reeled in readers from all different ages. She can be creepy, hilarious, and inspiring to the eyes that see her words. In Shirley Jackson’s short story, The Lottery, she keeps the reader on the edge of their seat wanting to continue reading beyond the final word. She uses literary devices to shape her story to grab her readers attention all throughout the story. By using these literary devices, Shirley Jackson shows off her dark and twisted side as well as her fantastic writing style to emphasize why she is one of the writers of her generation.

Despite their differences in their approach to characterization, both Joyce Carol Oates and Shirley Jackson managed to craft haunting short stories, whose characters quickly bond to your brain before they are quickly ripped away.

In this story “The Lottery” by Shirly Jackson the charatchters, have diffrent feekings about the lottory. Tess the main characther, trys to make it a big deal by telling everyone that it is not fair that her husbend bill got picked for the lottery. Tessi does not want to go to the lottery that is why she is late to the event in the moring. People who have not been picked are ok with the fact of the Lottery and what they will be doing to the people. Old Man Warner one of the main people in the Lottery that has been there for around 70 years is all about this event he loves it and loves doing it. This story shows us about the world and what they were trying to tell people throught the movie and the book. People should not do this

The short story was written by Shirley Jackson and it takes place in a small town, where everyone knows everyone. It was that time of year where the town celebrates their annual tradition, the lottery. Everyone is gathering with their families patiently waiting for it to begin, while some of the children gather stones. A man that goes by the name Mr. Summers, is in charge of the lottery. One man from each family is responsible for drawing a slip and once the lucky winner draws the black dot, his family draws. The rules are pretty simple. Unfortunately a man that goes by the name Mr. Hutchinson has his luck tested, when his wife receives a peculiar prize.

In the story the lottery the author makes the title lottery seems like what it sounds like, but in truth, the author describes the realities of the meaning of the lottery, while displaying the true intentions of the villagers. Essentially, I would explain the title lottery like any other lottery you find at the corner stores or at the supermarket because everything about the lottery process is the same with the exception of a few things. For instance, the lotto in the village is different because the drawing always takes place during a certain time of the year which is the month of June during the first harvest of the summer. “The rest of the year, the box was put way, sometimes one place, sometimes another; it had spent one year in Mr. Graves's barn and another year underfoot in the post office”.

How would you feel if you lived in a country where you could not speak your mind? Imagine your friend speaking out saying whatever the government is doing is wrong. And the next day your friend is killed because of his or her actions. In some countries like North Korea this will actually happen to someone. The government has too much power. There should be something that can mediate what the government can and cannot do. In Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery”, the author is trying to explain to the reader about society and more importantly government, and how much power they have on everyone’s life. To be more specific the author is trying to explain the government oppression

Sometimes following a crowd isn’t always a good. The theme of these two stories is about following a crowd. You shouldn’t follow a crowd, even if you think it is a good idea it could still end up very badly. Like if you were at a party, and someone brings drugs or drinks and you are underage that is not a good thing to be involved in, and not a group of people you should want to be around. “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, is a short story about a town that gets together on June 27th on a sunny summer day for the lottery. They all gather around and each person takes a slip of paper out of the black box, and the person with the black dot on their paper “wins”. But you don’t actually win, you get stoned to death by all the people that you lived with in the town. “First They Came” by Martin Niemoller, is a story about the Socialists, the Trade Union, the Jews, and Martin Niemoller. The Nazis started coming for the Socialists, and Martin didn’t say anything. The they came for the Trade Union, and Martin didn’t say anything. Then they came for the Jews, and Martin didn’t say anything. And then they came for Martin, and no one was there to help him, and why would they because he didn’t try to help them. Both “The Lottery” and “First They Came” deal with following a crowd, but they do so in different ways.

The way Mrs. Hutchinson have protest about the black dot in the slip, is similar to the back in the frame of women right movement. During the past, women were not allowing to vote. The feminine did not have the proper education and limited job opportunity too. Later one, the system starting to change because of a woman name Elizabeth Cady Station who had disagree about this situation and the women right movement have begun. Comparing to Jackson’s short story that had quote “ Tessie Hutchinson shouted to Mr. Summers. ”” You didn’t give him time enough to take any paper he wanted. I saw you. It wasn’t fair”(Jackson 5)”. The lottery was a traditional game that pass on to generation to generation, nobody in the village had even question about

Silly, but scary, emo but bubbly; oppositions of one another. This is how one of our honored authors, Shirley Jackson, writes her short stories. She uses positive and giggly descriptions at first, and then twists the rope to dark and bizarre ending. The short stories,”Charles” and “The Lottery”, are examples of this format. In the first short story, Laurie seems like a good boy but really, he’s not. In the second short story, the people in this lottery seem polite, but they are cruel and awful people. The protagonist in this story is Tessie. In “Charles”, the protagonist is Laurie.

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson In the story, “The Lottery”, written by Shirley Jackson, the main characters are Mr.Summers, Mrs.Hutchinson (Tessie), and Old Man Warner. The story takes place on June 27th at 10 o’clock A.M. in the village square which is located between the post office and bank. In the beginning of the story, the villagers gather in the village square. Mr.Summers starts the lottery and Mrs.Hutchinson arrives just before attendance is called.

In addition, to the complete story analysis a very important aspect that we can’t miss, is the theme supported by the ironic but not actually less real title proposed by Jackson to prepare a vision for us, to start getting into the context, and matter of the story. The same is also another factor that strengths the impact received by the reader at the moment it realizes with total consternation, that this specific raffle and its awaiting reward is not the idea pictured in our minds about what the actual theme is going to be about. ‘’The lottery was conducted--as were the square dances, the teen club, the Halloween program--by Mr. Summers.’’(para.4). In a very subtle way the title of the story enlighten our minds with the idea

On June 27th the village people had a lottery ,Mr. Summer runs the lottery. Before the lottery take place Mr. Summer makes a list of all the families and households in the villages. If an elder couldn't draw their own picture and had no grandchildren or children someone would volunteer for them. The rules of the lottery is every family has to come up and draw a picture on a slip.One of the towns people name Ms.Tessie protet the lottery was unfair because Mr. Bill and his family has not pulled from the black box. When Mr. Bill family had pulled from the box they found Ms. Tessie slip. The whole villages startes to stone her for lying. The tile of the story made me think it was about a lottery card.In a way the story has the same instruaction