Tessie Hutchinson In The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

In Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery, Tessie Hutchinson is victimized by various parties, including Mr. Summers, the entire crowd and even her husband. In the story, the people of a community perform a ritual on every 27th of June, in which they stone one of them after casting lots. In this particular village, the people gather at the lottery spot and Mr. Summers, the leader of the ceremony begins by declaring the lottery open. Bill Hutchison, her three children and Tessie Hutchison are standing in the front rows when Bill’s wife, Tessie Hutchison arrives late and finds them already settled. She says that she had totally forgotten about the ritual but upon realizing that her children and children were not around, she rushes towards the point of

In this story, the main character many different challenges in order to survive. The main character Tessie Hutchinson, the one who is chosen for the lottery picks the paper with the black mark on it which means you are chosen to be stoned. As soon as she is chosen she protests that the lottery isn’t fair. The next character we meet is Old Man Warner. He is the oldest person in the village and is portrayed as the cliché old man who has a lot of wisdom and knowledge. He has seen many lotteries occur and believes that it is good to keep the tradition going. Mr. Summers is the man gets the ballot ready each year and puts the slips in the box. It is coincidental that he is seen as one of the village leaders. Mr. Harry Graves is another character

Shirley Jacksons, “The Lottery” is about keeping lottery traditions. The lottery starts on June 2nd, in the village there were only about 300 people, so the whole lottery only took about two hours so they could start at 10 a.m. and end at noon. They each will draw a card from a bowl, kind of like a fish bowl shape, and whoever draws the card wilive.th the black marking on it wins the lottery, but you can’t say anything until the lottery is over.

Andrew Lansley once said “Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses.” Most people tend to follow cultural customs because they have grown with them or it has been forced onto them with factors such as parents or their environment. However, is it always right to follow these customs even if they are in fact considered wrong? Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is a short story about the cultural norms of a small community and its annual lottery ritual; a stoning. Jackson overthrows the story by making the lottery a corrupt occurrence rather than a victory. The reader would probably think that the “winner” of the lottery would be benefited but in this case the victory was not so delightful. In her short story “The Lottery” Jackson seemingly uses ordinary details about the setting and the townspeople to characterize her theme that although society claims to be civilized, and may appear so, it is inherently barbaric.

Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” uses specific word choice and specific details about the disparity of certain characters’ action to convey an ominous tone. When the Hutchinson family is up to draw for the death of one of them, Tessie Hutchinson yells, “‘ There’s Don and Eva’...’Make them take their chance’”(Jackson 32). This is significant because Mrs.Hutchinson knows that her daughters are to draw with their husbands but still would rather one of them die than her. This displays that the wickedness that the lottery brings to the villagers to the point where they want to put other members of their family up for death. The author also uses very specific diction, in which she uses words that communicate an ominous tone. For example,

In, “The Lottery”, Tessie’s friends and family were ready to stone her out of nowhere for winning the lottery. In many cases of people becoming famous, they forget who their friends were before the fame, or their friends see them differently. People will make you trust them, then they do the exact opposite of what you would expect. They’d turn on anyone. People would turn on their friends and family for something so small.

The author of “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson decided it was important to write this short story in order to inform the readers about another dimension, where a certain common tradition gets prized with something obscure. Some readers can be shocked when reading this story, because they might be surprised and even shocked with the themes that play along in the storyline. This short story “The Lottery” was so controversial at the time, because in the date it was published in June 24, 1948 there were so many themes from the stories that could relate to past events or even event that were taking place at the time.

In some ways, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson could be seen as controversial. Within the first paragraph, we are left with two main questions; “what is the lottery?” and “why does it happen?” A major theme that answers the first question is all about tradition. Yes, the lottery is a tradition in many towns. No one has ever questioned this tradition, even though it is quite inhumane. In all honesty, you could compare this story very well to The Hunger Games just because of what this tradition consists of. Imagine being in a town of around three hundred people and having your life put on the line. The lottery itself comes down to all of the townspeople meeting up, and each family name is read by Mr. Summers, and the head of the family

“The Lottery” was written in 1948 by Shirley Jackson. Mrs. Jackson, born in 1916, was known for her tales of horror and supernatural novels. She and her literary critic husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman lived in a little town called Bennington, Vermont. Mrs. Jackson was not accepted by the town. Her novels, especially “The Lottery”, revealed the dark side of human nature. Stephen King honored Shirley Jackson by dedicating his book Firestarter to her.

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is a story about a ritualistic ceremony performed by a village every year around June 26. The meaning of conformity is to do something because everyone else is doing it and this story is conformity at it’s best. The townspeople continue this event year after year simply because it has always been done and because they believe they will have bad crops if it is not done. At the beginning of the story, the reader is led to believe it is a normal sunny day. Children playing, men talking about planting, tractors and taxes and women standing around gossiping. Not until the story starts to unfold does the reader discover what the lottery truly is and how one of the village people are about to be sacrificed for what the town believes will be good crops.

In Shirley Jackson’s short story, “The Lottery,” a small village is preparing for an annual drawing, a tradition carried out for generations. During this ritual, the head of each household draws a blank piece of paper out of a black box. One piece of paper is marked with a single black dot and if chosen, the outcome is having the winner’s entire household draw out of the box. Whoever chooses the black dot out of the household is stoned to death by the entire village. In this instance, a husband wins to which his wife protests, and then she is the ultimate victim who is sacrificed. This story includes many literary elements like foreshadowing, warning of a future event, symbolism, symbols used in the story to represent ideas,and irony, when the contrary to what is expected to happen, occurs. Jackson uses foreshadowing, symbolism, and irony to prove the theme that it is foolish and barbaric to blindly follow tradition.

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson artfully uses foreshadowing in order to build suspense and create a shocking ending. Jackson’s success in “The Lottery” comes from her ability to keep the reader in the dark about the evils, until the very end. She has masterfully set up what the reader believes as a pleasant event. But, it is not until the ending, can the reader see the foreshadowing of the evils to come. Through the use of foreshadowing, Jackson is able to contribute to the story 's overall effect of suspense and a shocking ending.

In “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson writes about the game lottery, which makes the story very ironic. Unlike all of the other Lottery games, in this traditional version no one wants to be chosen, because that brings them the end of their life. Jackson explains how keeping up with some traditions that are part of people’s life, may not be the best choice to embrace a particular culture. Jackson uses the Lottery as an example to express her idea about the ethical issues such as; violent murder, harming people, forcefully following a tradition, and lying. All of these ethical issues are created by blindly following tradition in “The Lottery.”

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson uses extensive symbols and metaphors. It is a short story which has been equally appreciated as well as rejected by audience. The main themes of this story are those of tradition and scapegoat. The story begins with the author informing the reader about the time the lottery is going to begin by using certain phrases like “tractors and taxes” (Jackson, 76). Furthermore, the writer narrates the dress of Mr. Summers to be a “clean white shirt and blue jeans” (Jackson 78) which further supports the arrival of the lottery.

Conformity is not based mainly on containing and supporting a society, but also to dominate and control what is within. The control of repressed individuality benefits those at the top of a power structure. From early on, men were considered the breadwinners and women were to maintain households; whether due to a difference in physical, emotional, or mental state; this was an unquestioned hierarchy. Therefore, any women who pushed back were ultimately punished for threatening the system. In “The Lottery”, Shirley Jackson uses literary devices of symbolism, irony, and characterization to reveal the danger of blind obedience, and implanting the thought of resistance for women. To an extent, conformity is necessary in reality; time has shown that laws, rules, and regulations that are innately bad can serve as the catalyst for rebellion, as recorded for the French Revolution, Vietnam War, and Czarist Russia. Conformity lays the groundwork for good laws to be constructed, and until that time, men are able to abuse and utilized the current laws for their own superior gain. One of the biggest “rebellions” is backed purely by feminism, where women are repressed by men. Unfortunately, in the past not many women knew their true value, and were prematurely silenced; however, Jackson is revealing the reality of the restraints.