Reader Response: the Lottery

“The Lottery” is a short story by Shirley Jackson, first published on June 26, 1948. The story was initially met with negative critical reception due to its violent nature and portrayal of the potentially dangerous nature of human society. It was even banned in some countries. However, “The Lottery” is now widely accepted as a classic American short story and is used in classrooms throughout the country.

The idea of winning a lottery is associated with luck, happiness and anticipation of good things. In Shirley Jackson's story, " The Lottery", this is not the case. The irony of the story is that the winner of the lottery gets stoned to death by everyone else in the town. The story is very effective because it examines certain aspects of human nature.

    "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

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 Lottery” is a short story in which the small townspeople gather each year, on June 27th at 10:00 in the morning to perform a practice that has occurred for many years. The people who gather in the square almost seem to have a cheerful disposition while they go through the motions of

The story takes place in a village on June 27 where “The Lottery” began. Citizens of the village started gathering around a box, filled with slips of paper. Already in the second paragraph of the story, it hinted, “Bobby Martin already stuffed his pockets full of stones”, the action starts from the beginning as to what are they going to do with those stones. The story describes how everyone is acting normal and how they are just talking and laughing like they usually do. I think that even though they gave a hint that the stoning will happen, there was still a hint before that quote. Just by the genre and how the title is “the Lottery” it can either go really bad or really good.

Written by Shirley Jackson in 1948 is a short story titled “The Lottery”, which takes place in a small, unnamed village that represents any town. Every year on June 27th, the village holds a lottery in the square. The lottery is unusual and has an ironic outcome; the lottery has a winner, but in reality this winner is a loser. Although they always gather for the lottery, the villagers never question the purpose. The theme of this story is nobody questions injustice until it negatively affects them.

The story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, is filled with reality and a ritualized tradition that masks evil and demonstrates how people follow them. The Lottery is a lot like life itself, it shows that life isn’t always fair, and how we tolerate incredible acts of evil because they are part of our tradition and although we are sometimes unclear of where the traditions or rituals started, they sometimes have to change. Once a year the villagers in the town gather in the square the morning of June 27th a beautiful special day for the annual town’s lottery. In other towns the lottery takes nearly 2 days, but this town has a population of only 300 people and takes only 2 hours to perform.

Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is a tale basically about a small town and the people who lived there had to participate in the yearly "lottery". This yearly lottery were not like normal lotteries, no one did not want to win. At the beginning of the story it did not say what type of prize you will win, but they did reveal the prize at the end. Each year the families gathers together and they are required to draw a paper from a black box. The family who wins the winning paper has to put their paper back into the black box and draw again. The family who draws the paper with the dot wins the lottery. They do not say what the winning family member receive until the end, and the prize was to get put to death!

The Lottery is a short story by Shirley Jackson first published in 1948. It takes place in the town square of an unknown small town. It’s a warm summer day and there is an air of subdued anticipation as everyone is waiting for the annual lottery to begin. Everyone participates in this lottery from the eldest to the smallest child. The story takes us through the entire selection process until

The word lottery is often associated with winning prizes and money. Those who participate will sometimes visualize themselves winning and are disappointed when they don’t; they pray that their number gets called up or that their ticket has the winning number in order for them to win the grand prize. But imagine in an alternative world where people pray their card doesn’t get called up; that instead of winning a prize, that person will be killed in the cruelest way possible. In “The Lottery,” written by Shirley Jackson, it focuses on a small town who conduct a lottery every year, bringing the whole community together, and instead of winning a prize, the name drawn gets stoned to death. This story takes place in the present, so finding out that a village conducts this horrifying tradition every year is bizarre.

“The Lottery” is a fictional story that was written by Shirley Jackson and posted in a magazine called “The New Yorker”, on June 26, 1948. In the short story, “The Lottery”, the official “lottery” takes place on a beautiful and hot summer day. There were about 300 people present to this lottery that took place on June 27th. The crowd present at the lottery all lived in the same village, and participated in the lottery every year. In the short story, the most often characters were Mr. Summers and Tessie Hutchinson.

The short story The Lottery was written by Shirley Jackson in 1948. The story was published in The New Yorker magazine. Every year on June 27th they had The Lottery. On June 27th 1948 it was a clear sunny morning at 10am. There were flowers blooming and there was rich green grass. The Lottery was held at town square, there were about 300 people in the village. A lot of what they did in that village was farming. The Lottery was right in between the post office and the bank. People gathered all around, there was a black wooden box for the papers to go in. Now some families started to gather together and then Mr Summers and Mr. Graves started The Lottery. Everyone gathered as Mr. Summers called people up one by one. The head of the household/

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is an iconic short story which that was published in 1948. The plot revolves around a small town during the lottery drawing day, which is one of the town’s holidays. Due to a controversial event that took place in the story, Shirley Jackson received a lot of negative responses to her story and even obtained hate mail from various people, including her parents. This story is well- known for it’s unanticipated plot twist that leaves the readers baffled.

Mysterious and unsettling, the short story The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson, displays a violent side of dystopian societal morals. The story begins with an entire town gathering in a designated spot for an unknown lottery drawing. The reader is left completely in the dark to guess what the lottery drawing is for. But after a while an elderly man comes with a box containing multiple folded pieces of paper. The head of each household in the town then must come up and pick from the box. After everyone had picked, they