Summary Of ' The Lottery '

Now that all the papers are handed out the men begin to unfold the slips of paper to reveal blank pieces of paper. However one man is left with a paper with a black dot on it. The man unlucky enough to receive this slip of paper is Bill Hutchinson. Promptly Tessie Hutchinson, Bill’s wife, begins to panic saying he didn’t have enough time to pick his paper. Being a reasonable official Mr. Summers allows Hutchinson and each of his family members to reselect a paper. Bill, his two sons, one daughter, and wife Tessie each take a paper and Tessie Hutchinson is left with the paper with the black dot. The townspeople begin to clear a space around Tessie Hutchinson. One of the younger boys from earlier in the story hands her son a stone. While she screams “It isn’t fair, it isn’t right,” the townspeople begin stoning her, the lottery “winner”.

A literary device element that was used in “The Lottery” was setting. Setting from the story relates to the theme of false hopes. As it developed throughout the article, it shows that it took place during the summer time in June in a small village of 300 people. The description of the day states that it “ Was clear and sunny, fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green”(Jackson 1). The quote relates to the theme of false hopes because when you read this you think it is going to be a nice day and good things are going to happen. In reality this is a day that most do not look forward to, and a day that carries the tradition of death.

“The Lottery” has many symbols that help create the sinister and somber tone of the story. The black box from which the papers are drawn as well as the black dot on the paper are both symbolic of death. Black is a universally accepted

Although the title "The Lottery" plays with the choice of words for the ritual to sound like a game, the grand prize it to pay for the towns sins, such a Jesus did for the whole world. Leading up to that, by no mistake, did Mrs. Hutchinson say the she thought her husband was out in the back chopping wood. Jackson chooses her words carefully to refer to how Jesus dies on the cross, and her husband was "chopping the wood" when he pulled the first black dot proceeding to Mrs. Hutchinson picking the final slip of paper that contained the black dot.

The Lottery is a story based on a village's tradition. The lottery is defined as a very collective act of murder. The tradition of the lottery is the coming together of the whole town, on one specific day, for certain hours to draw one person’s name to see who will get to get killed by getting stoned. With this act of killing someone is making it a collective act of murder because they could disobey the tradition and not chose someone but they chose to kill one person to make themselves live longer. “It is not fair, it is not right” is coming from Mrs. Hutchinson who at the end of the story was the person who wins the lottery and gets stones thrown at her after she said these words thus making it a collective act of murder. Another reason because it’s not like they are killing that person on accident they are killing another human being on purpose to save their life.

In the Lottery it has things that deal with family and things of that matter. In the lottery it states “Bill Hutchinson was standing quiet, staring down at the paper in his hand, Suddenly Tessie Hutchinson shouted to Mr. Summers, You didn’t give him time enough to take any papers he wanted, I saw you ,It wasn’t fair.” So basically the quote is demonstrating that the guy figures out that it is someone from his family and he wants to show sympathy and doesn’t want his daughter to die but since it was on the paper his daughter has to die.

     Furthermore, Old Man Warner is horrified at the thought of ever stopping the lottery. When another villager speaks of other towns that have done away with the lottery he says, ?Pack of crazy fools? (Jackson 369),and ?Nothing but trouble in that? (Jackson 369)

there is quiet conversation between friends. Mr. Summers, who runs the lottery, arrives with a black box. The original box was lost many years ago, even before Old Man Warner, the oldest person in the village, can remember. Each year Mr. Summers suggests that they make a new box, but no one is willing to go against tradition. The people were willing to use slips of paper instead of woodchips as markers, as the village had grown too large for the wood chips to fit in the box. A list of all the families and households in the village is made, and several matters of who will draw for each family are decided. Mr. Summers is sworn in as the official of the lottery in a specific ceremony. Some people remember that there used to be a song and salute as part of the ceremony, but these are no longer performed. Tessie Hutchinson arrives in the square late because she has forgotten what day it was. She joins her husband and children before the lottery can begin. Mr. Summers explains the lottery’s rules: each family will be called up to the box and draw a slip of paper. One of the villagers tells Old Man Warner that the people of a nearby village are thinking about ending the lottery. Old Man Warner laughs at the idea. He believes that giving up the lottery would cause nothing but trouble, and a loss of civilized behavior. A woman responds that some places have already given up the lottery. Everyone finishes drawing, and each

I didn’t realize that something was wrong until I got to the part when Bill Hutchinson got the marked paper. “Bill Hutchinson was standing quiet, staring down at the paper in his hand” (Jackson 47). I mean, normally when somebody wins the lottery they scream and jump. Instead, he was shocked, and her wife wasn’t happy with it. That when I realize that this lottery wasn’t what I expected. Apparently he was drawing for the entire family. Now each member of family had

In The Lottery a small farming town was having a lottery they have it every year. Some big city’s it takes two days but because it was a small town so it only took two hours you draw slips of paper if it has a dot on it then your family is chosen then every person in the family draws a slip and if it has a dot on then you won. So you stand in the town square and everybody in the town grabs rocks and starts throwing them at you tell you die. That’s why life isn’t fair.

The type of event that the lottery seems to be is a gathering where they chose to kill one person by stoning them to death.

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Old Man Warner is a man who has lived through more than seventy lottery drawings, and has the traditions of the village deep within his roots. Old Man Warner gets word that in a northern village they are considering to stop the lottery tradition, and he just says that they are crazy (Jackson ). From his reaction to the statement made by Mr. Adams, we can tell that he does not want there to be change because the tradition is imbedded in his system. What others may see as brutal or heinous, he sees as mandatory and obligatory. The men in the village have the ultimate say in what goes on, and when changes need to be made.

The people of the village were consumed with their work, though the lottery shadowed their thoughts. Around ten o’clock (Jackson 43), the people gathered in tight lines in front of the bank. An ancient black box held rigidly in the post master’s hand, and Mr. Winters - a man personifying death itself - was prattling off the opening ceremony obligingly. Mrs. Warner, her face puffy with worry and morning wine, looked around nervously for her son. Unlike the other mothers, she stood alone: her husband had won the lottery the prior year.

Mr. Summers was a round faced jovial businessman who runs a coal company, he is married to a very nagging wife, and had no children. The lottery is conducted by Mr. Summers, he is one of the village leaders. He is the one that prepares the slip of papers and calls the name of the villagers to choose a piece of paper for the lottery. When Mr. Summers arrived in the square carrying the black box, the villagers started to murmur among themselves Mr. Summer must have noticed so he waved and called out to them saying ‘Little Late Today Folks’ , he figured that would quiet the murmuring. He set the black box down on the three legged stool that Mr. Graves brought. After the black box was in its place (on