How Does Shirley Jackson Create Suspense In The Lottery

“The Lottery” written by Shirley Jackson is a story based off of its point of view, the story would not be told or understood in the same way if it was written in a different point of view. This story keeps the interest of it's readers because it has a point of view where only the people in the story know whats going to happen and know more information than the readers do. If this story was written in first person the readers would know what the lottery was from the beginning of the story and that would make the story not have the surprise ending that confuses the audience.

The story entitled "The Lottery," written by Shirley Jackson is an intriguing and shocking parable. "The Lottery" is set in a small village on a clear summer day. Written in objective third person point of view, "The Lottery" keeps the reader in suspense as the story progresses.

Throughout the story, it is told from the third person point of view. This gives the reader a sense of understanding between all of the town folks. It makes the logic and reasoning behind each town member easier to access. This point of view gives the reader an idea of what different town people think of the lottery. For example, Old Man Warren does not believe that the lottery should ever be stopped. While some other members of the town were talking about how “that over in the north village they’re talking about giving up the lottery”(413). If Shirley Jackson wrote this story another way the reader would not receive the information and knowledge from the other characters like they do in the third person point of view. This overall is a strength with this point of view for Shirley Jackson's story. The implication that is seen through this point of view towards the story is that it gives all members of the village to speak and express their feelings about the lottery. It allows the reader to truly understand how the people

The third-person point of view in Shirley Jackson’s "The Lottery" demonstrates a remarkably unbiased narrator. The storyteller does not inquire into the direction of the minds of the characters or drift into their emotions or feelings. As the story unfolds, the narrator purely acknowledges the development of “The Lottery.” The reader only has information contributed by the outside perception of events in the story, and Jackson uses the narrator to increase the tension of the story. To obtain clues and possible explanations, this type of narration allows the reader to take a more active, committed role in the reading. The direction of the point of view guides the reader as an eyewitness to the story; it is up to the reader to judge the meaning of the physical phenomenon regarding the black box (Jackson 237)

Shirley Jackson exploits a true form of human nature in this story. The lottery, a deadly tradition, is a draw for death. The selfish need to survive is shown by all the townspeople, who stone the chosen one to death, be it their friend or family, with only the thought that they themselves survived. Every lottery, the people look at the black box, and desperately hope that they aren’t chosen. It is a gruesome reminder of what they have witnessed and taken part of; the murders of innocent

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is a terrify story about a small town and their traditions. The Ending of the lottery is the most shocking many of its readers have ever read. Why is it so shocking. Well Shirley jackson uses sybolism and simple narritive and her normal life to convey such a shock.

The author of “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson decided it was important to write this short story in order to inform the readers about another dimension, where a certain common tradition gets prized with something obscure. Some readers can be shocked when reading this story, because they might be surprised and even shocked with the themes that play along in the storyline. This short story “The Lottery” was so controversial at the time, because in the date it was published in June 24, 1948 there were so many themes from the stories that could relate to past events or even event that were taking place at the time.

The first topic in this essay, foreshadowing, Is the most frequently used literary device in “ The Lottery.” In the beginning of the story, when the kids gathered stones is an example of foreshadowing. We didn’t know why they were gathering stones, until the end of the story when they stoned Tessie. Another example of foreshadowing is the nervousness in the crowd. The crowd gave hints that winning this lottery wasn’t a good thing-as we found

In The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, she uses many literary devices to hint at the dark truth behind a seemingly (light hearted) story. Jackson uses foreshadowing to lift the curtain for a keen reader exposing the (dark) truth about tradition. Three examples of this are the children gathering stones, the black box, and the reactions of the Hutchinson family. Jackson makes it clear in The Lottery that tradition is not to be blindly followed, but looked at for what it truly is. In this heinous story The Lottery, Jacksons makes the reader question tradition.

Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" uses the third-person dramatic point of view to tell a story about an un-named village that celebrates a wicked, annual event. The narrator in the story gives many small details of the lottery taking place, but leaves the most crucial and chilling detail until the end: the winner of the lottery is stoned to death by the other villagers. The use of the third-person point of view, with just a few cases of third-person omniscient thrown in, is an effective way of telling this ironic tale, both because the narrator's reporter-like blandness parallels the villagers' apparent apathy to the lottery, and because it helps build to the surprise ending by giving away bits of

People think winning the lottery is a good thing. However, in Shirley Jackson’s story, “The Lottery” the winner gets something very crucial, getting stoned to death. Shirley Jackson uses, foreshadowing, the attitude of the villagers, and the subtleness of the black box, to provide the gruesome ending of the story for the reader. Making the story, eerie, serious, and horrifying, the story takes an unexpected twist; the reader will soon realize that the lottery is not what they thought it would be.

Imagine winning the lottery and it leading to your death. In the story "Lottery" by Shirley Jackson is just that. A town that believes stoning people to death will help their harvest. The two characters I believe changed and did not change are Tessie (Mrs. Hutchinson) and Old Man Warner. Here we will compare and see how each character changed or did not change and why I believe they changed their minds on the lottery.

In the beginning of the story the author gave you many of details about everything, e.g., the surroundings and the people, “The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green” except what the lottery is about. While your mind is filled with all the unnecessary details that you're being fed, and how peaceful the town and public seems, the author actually has surprise for you which is whatever you're thinking about the town and the public is unquestionably incorrect. As you are close to finishing the story you'll see that the lottery is actually evil and whoever wins is brutally killed by the people of the town with rocks. No one in the town thought about what they were doing was wrong because everyone else was doing it so they automatically didn't even realize that what everyone was doing was downright evil and

As can be seen this affected the story because the narrator mainly allowed us to see the lottery unfurling. In fact, if the story was written, for example in third person omniscient, the readers would have been able to gain knowledge of everything each villager was feeling. Of course, with that much insight, the readers would have figured out exactly what the lottery was about, ruining the ending. Generally, the story would never have unfolded perfectly, from the way third person objective allowed it to.

    Often, we paint a fairytale view of life for ourselves and our children. Sometimes, an author paints a frightfully realistic picture of life and forces us to reconsider the fairytale. In Shirley Jackson’s story, "The Lottery," a town each year conducts a lottery in which the winner or looser, in this case, is stoned to death by his or her own neighbors. The tradition is supposed to uphold social structure within the town, but in order to comprehend the true meaning of the story you must be able to read between the lines. "The Lottery" is a story about a town that has let its traditions go too far. Also, it is clear that the story contains eye-opening facts that lead me to