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The Author Of Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

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The Author of the short story The Lottery, Shirley Jackson was born in December 1918 and died in August 1965. Shirley Jackson based her story in a town she used to live which in North Bennington Vermont. The troubled things she was going through she made an idea for her story. Which something that was going with her and the town she put in the story in her own imagination. Shirley Jackson and her family had an uneasy relationship the experience she went through, which made her to be an open person. The author had some type gloomy experience with her and the North Bennington town she was living at in 1948.
One day Shirley Jackson was walking around the town she based on the Lottery. She mournful threw a stroller with newspapers and rocks down a hill. So, Shirley had an idea to write the Lottery. Shirley Jackson went back home to write the story and put what was in her mind to create the story. It took her two hours to write The Lottery which Shirley Jackson sensible wrote the book 2 months before its release date to the public. The story was published the same year as the story`s timeline. …show more content…

Shirley Jackson wrote the book in 1948 which is the same time the story is taking place after world war two. The Author has put the story together as she wrote it, so she can put how all the characters' moods who they and what is the meaning behind them. Shirley Jackson puts in the story the bad things are going on such the rocks to use to kill someone to sacrifice someone so nothing bad won’t happen that’s what the lottery is for. Shirley Jackson got the rock idea when she threw the rocks down a hill and the newspapers were papers what people have got from the

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