Illustrated In The Short Story, The Lottery

It was the morning of June 27th, ten years after Tessie Hutchinson was stoned to death. So much had happened during this decade after her death. Horace Dunbar was stoned last year, and Mrs. Graves the year before. The village now consisted of about 500 citizens, and with the village growing every year the lottery became more and more necessary for the town to prosper. But still people doubted the value of the lottery and tried to preclude it. Back when the year Tessie was stoned, the Adams were talking about how other towns were giving up the lottery. Every year there were a larger amount of people opposing the lottery.

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is set in a small town with a population being around 300 people, in this town everyone seems to be familiar and kind towards each other. Each year there is a lottery in this town which is a yearly tradition and everyone is there to participate in it. As all the villagers’ were gathered together, Mr. Summers had finally arrived with the black box to begin the lottery. The box had folded slips of paper inside of it and one of those papers had a black dot on it and to win the lottery you would have to pick that certain paper. The winner of the lottery this year was Tessie Hutchinson and out of no where all the adults and innocent children had ganged up on Mrs. Hutchinson and started to throw stones at her until her death. The author’s tone is what made this short story’s ending so unanticipated and the village had suddenly turned from being quiet and peaceful to completely violent and gruesome. The way everyone including her family had turned on Tessie

"The Lottery", is a story about how people stick to tradition. It describes how painstakingly people do not give up tradition and would rather kill someone than give it up. In the beginning, all of the townspeople are gathered in the TownSquare just as they do every year on this day. All the man and women are

The Lottery, written by Shirley Jackson, is about a small town that dedicates a day to killing one person from the town by stones. The head of the household each draw a paper from the box and whoever receives the one with the black dot, their family has to draw again. Whichever family member has the black dot, essentially wins the lottery. One character in the story, Old Man Warner, has survived each lottery that has happened. Warner has a lack of guilt and claims the lottery should be an occurrence each year. The mention of discontinuing the lottery irritates Warner. “‘Pack of crazy fools,’ he said… ‘There’s always been a lottery…’” (Jackson). He also expresses his dislike for the lack of seriousness when he comments on Mr. Summers, a man “who had the time and energy to devote to civic activities” (Jackson), joking around with the crowd. Perhaps the reason Old Man Warner is accepting towards this event is because this is the “Seventy-seventh year [he][has] been in the lottery” (Jackson). He also comments on how the people have changed. Exclaiming “‘It’s not the way it used to be… People ain’t the way they used to be’” (Jackson). Warner feels no remorse towards the lottery and believes it should continue as a tradition.

    "The Lottery," a short story written by Shirley Jackson, is a tale about a disturbing social practice.  The setting takes place in a small village consisting of about three hundred denizens.  On June twenty-seventh of every year, the members of this traditional community hold a village-wide lottery in which everyone is expected to participate.  Throughout the story, the reader gets an odd feeling regarding the residents and their annual practice.  Not until the end does he or she gets to know what the lottery is about.  Thus, from the beginning of the story until almost the end, there is an overwhelming sense that something terrible is about to happen due to the Jackson's effective

In this essay I will be doing a compare and contrast between the two stories “The Lottery” by Chris Alani and “the Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. Both stories were good, and had a deep meaning behind both stories that leaves the readers wondering why the stories had to end in the way they did. Now I’ll start off by giving a summary of both stories so you can know and understand my point of view better.

“The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, is a short story with an unexpected outcome. The townspeople gather on June 27th in the warm summer air to hold their annual lottery. The lottery starts off by each head-of-household drawing. The family who receives the slip of paper with the black dot then has each member of the family draw. The final winner--the one who has the paper with the dot--receives the shocking and vile prize of being stoned to death by their fellow townspeople. The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson, uses irony to show how the actions of the townspeople directly reflects ideals society has placed on the entire town.

In the story, “The Lottery,” there was a tradition in the town that was every year they would have a lottery. One member of each family in the town would go up and pick a piece of paper out of a black wood box. The person who received the paper with the black dot on it would have to draw again along with all the people in their family. This time around it was the Hutchinson

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is a short fictional story that was published in 1948 and was in the magazine The New Yorker. The setting of the story is a small nice little village with green grass and flowers everywhere.The village was a farming village that mostly supported agriculture. The main characters are Joe Summers, Mr. Graves, and the Hutchison family. The conflict of the story was man versus tradition of the lottery. The lottery had little slips of paper that Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves made and one that had a black dot on it. The “winner” is the person with the black dot. The winner has his family draw again to see who is the real “winner”. When drawing, the heads of the households get to draw for the family and can’t look at the slips until everyone is done drawing. Most villages are giving it up. The oldest man in village says, “lottery in June, corn be heavy soon”, as that after the lottery is done crops grow better. When it was done Hutchinson got the “lucky” card and his wife Tessie was making a big deal about it, “it wasn’t fair’’ she said and, “they should redo the lottery, she thought.”Bill Hutchison tells Tessie to shut up and Mr. Graves starts setting up for the last round. Graves took the black dot piece of

The short story, “The Lottery” is about villagers in a small community who gather together in the town square for the town lottery. The children of the village had just finished school for the summer and gather stones to put in a pile, followed by the men, and then the women. There are 300 people in this village so the lottery is only a couple hours compared to other towns. Mr. Summers is the man who conducts the lottery, who has no kids and wife is considered unpleasant. His assistant is Mr. Graves who helps Mr. Summers to the spot where a very old black box is placed. The black box contains slips of paper for everyone in town and is noted to be even older than the towns oldest citizen, Old Man Warner. Before the start of the lottery list of the heads of households, family members, and heads of

The Lottery is a story that explains how a small village celebrates a specific tradition which is called “The Lottery”, when the word “lottery” comes in mind I thought that the story would be talking about someone being picked in the village to receive or win a big prize or someone who was being assigned to be a specific person in the village. But that's not the story at all, this story talks about a person being picked out from what they called the “Black Box” which is a very old wooden box that had people names written in it, so that day would be celebrated every year in this small village so when this day came they picked out a girl’s name called “Tessie”. She was arguing with Mr. Summers, the person

The Lottery is a story written by Shirley Jackson. This story is about an event that happens every year which Mr.Summers conducts. Each man of the house must draw from a black box that holds paper and the person that draws a black circle means that one person in their family will get the prize. Every person in that family draws and the one that gets the black circle will receive the lottery of getting pelted with stones to death. The people in this town believe that this lottery is good for them and it helps out their farming life.

In the short story “The lottery” by Shirley Jackson, the lottery is an yearly event, that happens on June 27th. The lottery process starts at ten o'clock in them morning. The ending time is not set, because that depends on the population of the town. All the people are gathered, and are organized by their family. Each family sends a person from their family to take a slip of paper out of the black box; this is usually the male head of the family, but a women can draw in the absence of him. Those papers cannot be opened until every family gets a paper. After family gets their paper, everyone opens their up. If your paper has a black dot on it, then that means you are the “lucky” family. The paper with the black dot is then placed back into the box, along with a white piece of paper for each person in the “lucky” family. Each family member then redraws the slip of paper. Then, each person in the family opens their paper up, and whoever got the piece of paper with the black dot on it, you will be stoned to death.

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is about how the people in this village pick a piece of paper and if the paper has a black spot on it you, get stoned for the crops. The men of each family pick and Bill Hutchinson picked the black spotted piece of paper, so the whole family has to pick a piece of paper and Tessie Hutchinson got the black spotted piece of paper and she got stoned for the crops. The theme is that you need to think about your tradition before following it.

“The Lottery” a short story by Shirley Jackson, features a small town during the time of their lottery. The lottery is an annual event, organized by Mr. Summers. It is a highly important time, as the whole town comes to the town square on the day of the lottery. The guidelines are quite simple: everyone takes a slip of paper out of the symbolic black box, and the slip of paper with the black mark carved on it, is the “lucky winner”. But their definition of the lottery is different一usually, a lottery is a valuable thing to win. But when Tessie Hutchinson, the “lucky winner” gets her reward by getting stoned to death by the rest of the villagers, it is clear that winning this lottery can't be a good affair... So what is the purpose of this lottery? Rather than discontinuing the lottery, the town continues with it because they don't want to upset an old tradition.