The Lottery By Shirley Jackson Causes And Consequences

“The Lottery” is a short story by Chris Abani that shows the average day of a child living in Nigeria in the 1970’s from one extreme to the next. Chris’ aunt takes him to the market and he states how happy he is, “even her religious fanaticism, which sometimes prompted her to proselytize, embarrassingly, to complete strangers, wasn't enough to deaden my good mood.” The story changes while at the market when a man is accused of stealing gets chased down by a mob and is burned to death and spit on. In the beginning of the story you do not see why the title is “The Lottery,” but as the story goes on it is not referring to the lottery we are familiar with in America. Chris refers to his aunt as religious, so religious that sometimes it is embarrassing.

When you think of the lottery, what do you imagine? Gold, A new house, maybe a car? This short story is nothing like you’re thinking. “The Lottery”, by Shirley Jackson, conveys its message through the use of diction, dialogue, irony, and theme. "The Lottery" first appeared in the New Yorker in 1948.

The idea of winning a lottery is associated with luck, happiness and anticipation of good things. In Shirley Jackson's story, " The Lottery", this is not the case. The irony of the story is that the winner of the lottery gets stoned to death by everyone else in the town. The story is very effective because it examines certain aspects of human nature.

The lottery offers a wonderful opportunity to possibly win millions of dollars. While this might seems amazing, it might not be as wonderful as imagined. In fact, maybe even the opposite might true as stated by numerous studies and research done since the 1970s.

The concept of the lottery is the same throughout every state, people have money and are interested in “playing the odds”; the revenue from these people is then divided and used to benefit organizations of the state’s choice. Exactly where the money goes to is what differs from state to state. Some states put all the revenue from the lottery into one trust fund that is allocated for a more broad and generalized group. Other states target specific programs such as, preserving natural parks or assisting the educational system with additional funds. The State of Alabama does not have a lottery and its locals are the ones missing out. Due to the lack of the lottery in Alabama, those who choose to play the lottery must travel out of the state, which means their money goes to other state’s lotteries benefiting that states programs and ultimately its residents. By keeping the peoples money in the state a lottery will open an endless amount of opportunities to better state supported programs and the state as a whole.

“The Lottery” written by Shirley Jackson was written in 1948. Jackson declared her purpose for writing the story was “to shock the story’s readers with a graphic demonstration of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives” (pg. 250). The main characters in this story are Mr. Summers who draws the names out of the black box; Mr. Graves the post master that assist Mr. Summers; Bill Hutchinson, Tessie Hutchinson who were chosen in the lottery; and the townspeople. Jackson uses the bright and friendly atmosphere set the tone of the story. The story starts off on a clear and sunny morning on June 27th. It was a beautiful day with the flowers blooming and the grass green in a small little town of 300 people. In this town the townspeople felt strongly about upholding traditions. Tradition is important to small towns, a way to link families and generations. Following traditions blindly is what can turn into something terrible. The lottery was held each year where one person was

This the description before the lottery staring .Through this description, can seemly see that the lottery is not a simple event hold in this village, it must be a big event. And the lottery is also a event that rich people also care about.

The lottery preys on the people it is supposed to be helping. It is funded through lottery players, which are usually low income minorities. One example that proves this is when Duke university economist Charles Clofelter and Phillip cook found that “ blacks, high school dropouts and people in the low income category” ( source D), are the heaviest

Winning the lottery sounds pretty cool doesn't it? Mostly everyone has thought about how excited and happy they'd be if they won. Well think again, in Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," she portrays a different, more gruesome lottery than what one may imagine. To develop her overall theme of tradition, Jackson employs the use of foreshadowing, irony, and satire.

“The Lottery” takes place on a warm sunny summer day of June 27, 1948 in New England. The small farming village all gather around ten o’clock around the post office and the bank for the yearly harvest for the lottery. This village is very small compared to other villages, this particular village has only about three hundred people and we know that because the lotter only takes about two hours where other take days. The

All you have to do to win the Jackpot is to check if your ticket matches the exact numbers drawn in your favorite lottery. “Jackpot” is the prize winning in Row/Level 1 of a particular draw.

Once you win the lottery, the news teams will attempt to seek you out and reveal your face to the public. Once that happens, people will constantly ask you for money. Most of these people who ask will be people you know or have a close relationship with. Jeffrey Dampier’s family is a perfect example. His family constantly asked him for some of his money. Jeffrey soon went bankrupt after he gave all of his winnings to his family. Sadly his family didn’t care that he went bankrupt. They only cared about getting the money so they can be rich themselves. Another way people can take advantage of you are through fake friendships. There are some people in the world today who only want to be your friend because they just want to get money off of you. If you are a generous person, you will usually give your friends some money. However, those people can take off with your money and you might never hear from them again. Finally, the most common way people take advantage of you are through robberies. Once you are on the news, you are now a huge target for robbers. They will attempt to track you down and kill you for your money if you are not careful. Not only is winning the lottery bad because people take advantage of you, but it can also affect your actions toward

We all have, at one time or another, day dreamed about what we would do if we won the lottery. Some of those dreams could include traveling to exotic places, buy a new home, and help family and friends, just to name a few of the dreams. Very few people will ever get the chance to make those dreams come true, however many people still have a tradition of playing and many have certain rituals when playing the lottery, such as: playing the same numbers, buying their tickets from only a certain store, or buying tickets only on certain days. Although, I don’t have a tradition of playing the lottery, I will every now and then buy a ticket. The ritual of this irregular tradition is when the jackpot is so high most

The Lottery is a story that explains how a small village celebrates a specific tradition which is called “The Lottery”, when the word “lottery” comes in mind I thought that the story would be talking about someone being picked in the village to receive or win a big prize or someone who was being assigned to be a specific person in the village. But that's not the story at all, this story talks about a person being picked out from what they called the “Black Box” which is a very old wooden box that had people names written in it, so that day would be celebrated every year in this small village so when this day came they picked out a girl’s name called “Tessie”. She was arguing with Mr. Summers, the person

The Lottery has very strict rules regarding the proceedings before and after the lottery. By so doing, the author symbolizes an underlying deeper meaning to it. I think the main point of symbolism expressed by the author is an extreme example of what can occur when a tradition is not questioned or addressed critically by new generations.