Should The Lottery Be Kept Alive

As the plot of the stories unfolds, the greater influence of violent tensions become evident. In The Lottery, people follow the tradition despite its cruelty and absurdity. Although the ritual of the lottery is brutal, the dwellers of the village do not seem to see how barbaric it is because “there’s always been a lottery” (Jackson, 1982, p. 118). Nevertheless, the tensions grow when the lottery begin and every citizen is awaiting for its end. The climatic moment of the story grows when the reader discovers that Tess

It was a warm day that would end with a kind of tragedy even though the town’s people see it as something that has to happen. The lottery was something that took place as a tradition as a sacrifice for crops. One person would be stoned at the end of the lottery and in this case it was Tessie Hutchinson, a mother and a wife. In the story the main conflict is the lottery because it ends with the death of one of the towns people. There are many emotional triggers in the story, one being that someone asks Tessie’s own child pick up a rock and help stone her to death. Another one in this story is the helplessness that Tessie faced once she knew that she was the so called “winner” of the lottery, she helpless yells “It isn't fair, it isn't right.” In the story, the lottery is a metaphor for traditions that are used to inflict harm. It can be comparable to many traditions of today’s society that could be harmful to

Because it has been passed down through the generations, the black box is a symbolic piece of town history

In Shirley Jackson’s "The Lottery," what appears to be an ordinary day in a small town takes an evil turn when a woman is stoned to death after "winning" the town lottery. The lottery in this story reflects an old tradition of sacrificing a scapegoat in order to encourage the growth of crops. But this story is not about the past, for through the actions of the town, Jackson shows us many of the social ills that exist in our own lives.

Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” illustrates that cruelty and violence are primitive and inherent characteristics of all humans through its depiction of a seemingly ordinary town that engages in surprisingly dystopian traditions. The villagers are introduce as regular individuals that are living in idealistic society as illustrated through the idyllic image of “a sunny, summer day with blooming flowers and green grass”. In stark contrast, these very people are shown to be capable of heartless violence with “a flying stone” hitting the side of Tessie Hutchison’s head as she screams for mercy. This juxtaposition illustrates the complexity of human nature, which can be both kind and cruel, while highlighting murder and violence is not

“The Lottery” represents any action, behavior, or idea that is passed down from one generation to the next that’s accepted and followed without question. Family relationships are important to how the actions of the lottery are carried out, but these relationships mean nothing the moment it’s time to stone the unlucky victim. The lottery has been taking place in the village for as long as anyone can remember. It is a tradition, an annual ritual that no one has thought to question. The villagers are fully loyal to it, despite the fact that many parts of the lottery have changed over the years. Nevertheless, the lottery continues, simply because there has always been a lottery. The result of this tradition is that everyone becomes one to murder on an annual basis. Although family relationships determine almost everything about the lottery, they do not guarantee loyalty or love once the

The black box and its condition symbolize how the tradition, like the black box, has aged beyond its time that it should have. “Mr. Summer spoke frequently to the villagers

an obscure and violent tradition takes place. The story depicts a group of antiquated villagers exercising this violent tradition in which the winner is stoned to death without a clear purpose or reason. This story creates a contrasting effect with today’s modern traditions in which we still see tradition’s harmful effects take place collectively. In “The Lottery” and

“Even thought the black box lost its meaning they still remembered to use stones”(Griffin8). The villagers remembered the negative and not the positive in the ritual. The villagers don't think about others just themselves. Griffins statements can be used to state my claim about cruelty behavior. Their main arguments can be used in my essay towards authority and violence. Griffins article talks about how the villagers are being brought down by Old Man Warner and continues the tradition and converting it to violence. Instead of standing up to Warner and protesting that is not right to treat human beings as a form of assumption in sacrifice in order for crop growth to

The narration and point of view in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” are essential components of what has made the story controversial and cause it to stay relevant since its release in 1948. The passage where the Hutchinson family is drawing papers to see which member will be stoned, on pages 234 and 235, exemplifies the power of this kind of narration perfectly. In this section, almost all of the aspects of narration and point of view are demonstrated, including the grammatical person of the narrator and their characteristics: whether they are part of the story world, their reliability, level of knowledge, and the ethical issues that arise from how the story is told.

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

“It isn’t fair, it isn’t right!” screamed Tessie Hutchinson before she was stoned to death (Jackson). “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, is a short story about a village that has an annual lottery; however, in this lottery, one does not win the typical million dollar prize. They win death. Mr. Summers, the man who organizes the lottery, calls each family, up to a box to draw papers. All the papers are blank, but there is one paper with a single, black dot on it. The family that draws the paper with a black dot marked in the middle draws a second time to see which individual, within that family, will be stoned to death. The family that is unfortunately selected is the Hutchinson family. This means that there are five potential victims: Mr. Hutchinson, the husband/father, Tessie Hutchinson, the wife/mother, Nancy Hutchinson, the daughter, Davy Hutchinson, the youngest son, and Bill Hutchinson Jr., the eldest son. After they all select papers, Tessie Hutchinson is stoned to death for drawing the only marked paper. The time period in which Shirley Jackson lived suggests a psycho-analytical reading of “The Lottery” because the actions of the village reflect an everyman for himself, or mob, mentality.

In “The Lottery”, Jackson wrote about a special tradition of a small village. June 27th was warm and sunny, and it gave the impression like nothing could possibly go wrong. Everyone knows the lottery as an exciting thing, and everybody wants to win, but this lottery is unlike any other. This lottery was actually the tradition of stoning of an innocent villager; that year it was Tessie Hutchinson. Though the horrific ending was not expected, throughout the story Jackson gave subtle hints that this was not an average lottery. Jackson foreshadowed the death of Tessie Hutchinson with stones, the black box, and the three legged stool; she showed that unquestioning support of tradition can be fatal.

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is notoriously known for its highly controversial tale, abstract values, and fiction. In “The Lottery,” Tessie Hutchinson, a free-spirited character, becomes a victim of a ritual execution. Shirley Jackson uses symbolism to explain three objects used in the story: the black box, three-legged stool, and the stones. Also, Jackson uses the villagers to describe the characters’ personalities and values which in hindsight bring together the story’s setting and plot.

The short story “The Lottery” pays close attention to the tradition of the lottery that has been held in this town and how other towns had embraced new developments and were now denouncing the tradition of the lottery by banishing it. The story took place in a small town in the 20th century. From the outside, the town appears quite normal. With a population of about three hundred people, with the majority are farmers. Despite the quiet atmosphere, this peaceful town has an evil mark. Every year, June 27th a lottery is held and the winner will be stoned by other residents including family members. This evil act is the result of a ritual that was performed by previous generations. In their