Reasons For Joining The Lottery

The Lottery point of view is third person (objective). These means the narrator is not a character in the story. Is telling us the characters thoughts and feelings. Also, the narrator shows the process of how is getting perform the lottery.

The short story, “The Lottery by Shirley Jackson”, shows how scapegoatism forms violence and cruelty behind the story's structural character Old Man Warner. Warners meaning towards the stoning was that one had to have a connection with fertility in order to have successful crop growth. Warners behavior towards the ritual tradition has changed many things from wooded chips to slips of paper to the black box symbolizing death, and continuing to use stones in their ritual.

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Would you like a chance to win millions of dollars in the lottery ? What if the prize were to be you or one of your friends or family members being stoned to death? You probably would not be so interested in a lottery. Now days we have a choice to join the lottery although if one of us win we can win millions of dollars . In the story, the lottery was a drawing of names of all the people in the town and whoever happen to get the paper with a dot got stoned . The people of this town believed if they sacrificed one person it would help their crops grow . There is even an old saying “ Lottery in June brings crops soon “ .

There are many Americans and people all over the world that live their lives following traditions that are passed down from one generation to another. A tradition can be as simple as cooking a recipe to how you raise your children and holiday traditions. Culture plays a significant role in how people live their day to day lives. In Shirley Jacksons “The Lottery” the people that lived in the town follow a tradition every year. It's easy to understand why Shirley Jackson’s Lottery caused controversy when it was published shortly after World War II in 1948. The Lottery has been dramatized, televised and turned into a ballet. It is taught in high schools and colleges. (Whittier). The Lottery held many questions about traditions that have

In life, people have a tendency to ruin a good thing while it’s going. People become overwhelmed with the joy and fulfillment and begin to react irresponsible. For instance, a great thing such as winning can result into something horrible. Winning the lottery not only can bring happiness into someone’s life, but as well cause their life to be a complete nightmare. When a person goes from being considerably poor to having millions of dollars, it impacts their lives to a great extent by causing them to become unreasonable with their winnings, quit their jobs, or just lose touch with reality. Truth is winning unthinkable amounts of money causes unimaginable stress on lives of people not accustomed to it resulting in a positive event turning

Each of the stories begin with a description of a beautiful summer day. “The flowers were blooming profusely and the grass was richly green"(para 1) in “The Lottery" is quite comparable to "old moss-grown gardens and under avenues of trees"(para 1) in "...Omelas." These descriptions (along with several others) provide positive connotations and allow the reader to relax into what seems to be a comfortable setting in either story. Both stories also contain gathering of townspeople. In "...Omelas there is music, dance, and special attire incorporated in the gathering, whereas in "The Lottery," the women show up "wearing faded house dresses and sweaters." Although Le Guinn’s environment seems more festive, all the folks in both stories are coming together for what seems to be enjoyable, even celebratory occasions. However, I believe the major similarity lies in the fact that these many pleasant details create facade within each story. The reader is then left ill-prepared when the shocking, brutally violent, ritualistic traditions are exposed.

The lottery offers a wonderful opportunity to possibly win millions of dollars. While this might seems amazing, it might not be as wonderful as imagined. In fact, maybe even the opposite might true as stated by numerous studies and research done since the 1970s.

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The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson, is about a fictional town that follows a chilling tradition called the lottery. The “lottery,” as it was called, was a gruesome tradition in which citizens’ names would be put in a pool, and they would be called up to a stage, or center of an audience. Whoever’s name was called was then forcefully beat with rocks until they died. Although the tradition was cruel, it was followed, because it was considered “normal” in their society. However, many people believed that the tradition was unfair, which leads to the theme; many things in life are not fair, but they have to be accepted.

I do believe that an unsetteling ritual like the one told in The Lottery could happen in America today. This story insinuated that the ritual was done for two possible reasons. The first reason being to lessen the crime rate in their village, "Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example....eventually made a great pile of stones in one corner of the square and guarded it against the raids of the other boys". The second reason being to lessen their population, " Chips of wood, Mr. Summers had argued. had been all very well when the village was tiny, but now that the population was more than three hundred and likely to keep on growing, it was necessary to use something that would fit more easily into he black box". Both of these experiences are problems America has been trying to fix as of recently.

When we analyze and juxtapose both Jackson’s story and Shield’s essay it is clear that we must question and address traditions in order to assure that their purpose is being fulfilled and they are being executed in a fair and honest way. For this to happen, personal emotion should be left out of the procedure at all times, and, we must carefully analyze beyond our perceptions, in order to assure that the process serves a clear and law-abiding purpose. I believe that when a person’s most sacred possession, life, is at stake, we must assure that every precaution and resource is exhausted in order to attribute to it the importance that it is

Hello my good citizens of this town, thank you for gathering here in the square town. Old Man Warner do you know why we do the lottery? What is the original purpose of it? Why the people have to die? And what do we get from it? Can anybody tell me what good has happened past these many years? This lottery have been happening for more than 200 years and we have been blindly following this tradition and nobody knows why it happens.

The short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson covers many eerie points in life and how people follow their lives in shadow. People follow their lives like pathways and some do not see these paths with many turns, one example is school everyone thinks that school is necessary in order to further your career in life. Now “The Lottery” has many questionable idealisms of how on the twenty seventh of every month the town’s people gather at the square and have a sacrificial drawing. Upon finishing the drawing everyone looks to see who the unlucky person is. No one flinches or even tries to prevent this event they all follow the rules down to its gruesome finish. The actions of the community were not really Tessie's fault because the choice of

Lottery is one of the best things that has ever happened to human kind especially those that dream high and but their dreams don’t come to life because they don’t have what it takes to make it happen. Lotteries are in various categories such as sweep stakes, scratch off, the Jackpot and even the green card lottery. The lottery that is being focused in this argument is the jackpot one. When individuals or people in general buy the lottery ticket their hopes are high, and they anxiously await with anticipation hoping to win. If they don’t win, they never give up, for they know that there is always next time and they keep playing. Some people urge that playing lottery is a bad idea because people end up getting