The Lottery By Shirley Jackson Analysis

The story revolves around a village in New England whose residents gather at 10 a.m. in the square between the bank and the post office for the lottery which is held every year. There is a bright sun shining on green lawns and fragrant flowers. More than 300 residents wait in the amicable environment for Mr. Summers to arrive with the black wooden box where everyone will draw a folded slip of paper. Adults are chatting while the children are playing where they gather stones. The person who will be lucky enough to draw the slip of paper with the black dot will be the lucky person who will walk away with the entire proceedings of the lottery. The

Despite their differences in their approach to characterization, both Joyce Carol Oates and Shirley Jackson managed to craft haunting short stories, whose characters quickly bond to your brain before they are quickly ripped away.

Introduction and overview of the short stories, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell.

Publishing “The Lottery” in 1948, at the termination of World War II, Shirley Jackson uses prevalent cultural and historic cues throughout this story to insinuate a threatened, late 1940’s American society. References to the Holocaust were made by appeasing to this violent and sadistic tradition of stoning, in like manner the propelling of the stones reference the propelling of The Atomic Bomb. Consequently, the people of this village were forced to conform with the inability to observe humanity. Jackson’s purpose of writing “The Lottery” was, “to shock the story’s readers with a graphic demonstration of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives” (236). In this story, she was trying to present a barbarous tradition

First Mr. Summers, who was in charge of the lottery, as well as all of the community's other activities, begins by making sure everyone was present and if they weren’t, they had someone representing them. After that he reads off the family names and the head of families (the men) go up first, collect a paper from the black box and keep it closed until every family has collected theirs. So, one by one the men go up and collect their paper. Meanwhile this is happening some citizens talk to Old Man Warner about how some towns are talking about giving up the lottery why a select few have already quit. Old Man Warner is appalled by the mere suggestion and equates stopping the lottery with going back to living in caves. No one continues the discussion after that. When all the men have gone up, Mr. Summers instructs them to open their paper. For a moment there was silence then everyone speaking at once; “Who is it? Who’s got it? Is it the Dunbars? Is it the Watsons?” (Jackson 298). It was Bill Hutchinson whose paper had a little black dot. A second later, Tessie, Bill’s wife, complains that he wasn’t given enough time that the draw was unfair; of course, everyone knows she’s

It was the day of June 27th, it was a sunny morning. The town was holding a lottery as they do every year. All of the villagers of the village meet at the town square for the lottery. Some of the families that meet at the square were the Hutchinsons, the Dunbars, and the Martins. Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves began the lottery, all of the heads of the household/Husbands came to the center and drew a paper out of the black box. They all showed the people their paper, and Bill Hutchinson's had a black dot on his paper. So, the Hutchinson family went to the center and drew. They all showed the people their paper and Tessie Hutchinson had the black dot on her paper, so that meant that she got stoned to death. “Lottery in June crops be heavy soon,”‘ as they say, this means they sacrifice a person for good crops this is a tradition in this village. The main theme of the story is power of tradition. People didn’t want the tradition, but they did not have the power to stop it.

The short story "The Lottery" written by author Shirley Jackson, announced its readers to a small village who lived in a simpler manner. A town where there was little crime, everyone knew each other by first and last name and the community reacted with each other very well. The town is led by Mr. Summers in which he is highly respected and really controls everything including the lottery. Which leads us to the actual lottery, which has been a tradition in this village for many years, some think it should be stopped but majority think it would bring bad luck to the community. The lottery takes place every year on June 27th in the middle of town and everyone attends and waits anxiously, also the kids are gathering stones in small corners. Traditionally,

It was a warm sunny June day when children-who are off from school for summer vacation- frolicked about in the town square, gathering stones and then piling them up. The wives and husband talk casually with those of the same sex and after a few minutes the wives call their children over. After a few attempts to get the youngsters attention, they scurry over and everyone gather with their families, and Mr. Summers comes to the center with the black box in hand. Mr. Summers checks to see if everyone is h there for “The Lottery” and sees the Tessie Hutchinson is not there, but soon joins the crowd .Everything become more hushed and serious as he mixes up the slips of paper with names of Families and households. One by one, Mr. Summers calls up

If everyone else was doing something, would you? Or maybe if someone needed to be stood up for, would you have their back? In The Lottery, people do follow other people blindly. And the consequences are devastating. But in First They Came, not having someone’s back might get you in the same position…

During the drawing the head of each family goes up to the box in the middle of the square and draws a slip of paper. Each man then holds his paper until every family in town has been drawn. Then they all open their papers the one with the mark is the family chosen. This year is tis the Hutchinson family that has the mark. A paper is put in the box for each member of the family, and another drawing is held. The children go first, followed by their parents. It is Tessie Hutchinson who draws the marked paper.

The story is about cultural tradition lottery thing which has been going on from long time. People come into the town and gathered to attend to this tradition. One of the main character of the story is Mr Sumner who runs this Lottery processing of the ceremony. Unlike other time, this time it had a twist ending. When the ceremony began Mr. Summer started calling names and started to greet with everyone. After greeting, and everyone taking one paper out of the box and hold done to it until everyone has got chance to draw a paper. Then everyone open their paper and Mr hucchintion got the paper. Then, Tessie Hutchinson, mr. hutchinson’s wife started to protest that her husband did not get enough time to chose s paper. Then, Mr. Summer gave

The short story “The Lottery” takes place in a small village on June 27th where the town gathers for a yearly lottery draw. The lottery was set up and conducted by Mr. Summers who was the only one in the village who had enough time to do so. All the villagers gathered into the square at precisely ten o’clock, except Mrs. Hutchinson who lost track of time and arrived minutes late. Many of the kids were still scrambling around looking for stones and rocks shoving them into their pockets. Finally, names started to be called to pick a slip of paper, first the head of the family’s, then the head of the household’s. When Mr. Summers was finished calling all the heads of the family’s everyone opened their blank slip of paper except Mr. Hutchinson

This story takes place in a small village consisting only of three hundred citizens. On June the 27th, the residents of the village gathers in the town square, to take part in the annual lottery run by Mr. Summers. The children, newly released from school, are the first to assemble, the boys gathering small piles of stones while doing so. When the whole town is gathered, the ceremony starts of, by Mr. Summers checking if everyone is present. Then slowly one by one, the family names will be shouted, and the head of the family will go up to the black box, containing small slips og paper, and pick out on for the family without opening it. Bill Hutchinson draws for his family, and end up getting the paper with a black dot on it. Tessie, Bills’

Mr. Summer, who runs the lottery, and his assistant Mr. Graves, make over 300 slips of paper. He puts the paper into the dreadful black box. On one of the slips of paper, there is a black dot. So then, one family members from every family comes up and draws for their family. They are forbidden from looking at their slip of paper till everyone in the town has drawn there slip of paper. Then all at once, they all look at their paper and the family who has the black is the family who loses. After that, everyone in the family will come up and draw, and the one person who gets the black dot, gets stoned to death by everyone in the town.

This story describes a fictional small town which observes—as do many other communities, both large and small, throughout contemporary America—an annual ritual known as "the lottery. Details of contemporary small-town American life are embroidered upon a description of an annual ritual known as "the lottery." In a small village of about 300 residents, the locals are in an excited yet nervous mood on June 27. Children gather stones as the adult townsfolk assemble for their annual event, which in the local tradition is practiced to ensure a good harvest (Old Man Warner quotes an old proverb: "Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon"), though there are some rumors that nearby communities in the north are talking about giving up the lottery.