Traditions In The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

Tradition in “The Lottery” There are many things that people do every day without questioning why they do them. These are our habits and traditions, and though for the most part they are unimportant they can be a crucial part of our culture and our interactions with each other. Sometimes there are traditions that can cause harm or are morally unacceptable. What should be done in this case? Edmund Burke, a nineteenth century politician and author, argues that it is best to stick with tradition rather than causing dramatic changes in people’s behavior. This is a key component in his argument against the French Revolution in his essay “Reflections on the Revolution in France.” In this essay he argues that the revolution will only lead the

Tradition; it is the back bone of every culture and civilization. It is what keeps the beliefs, philosophies, and activities of societies alive, to be passed down from generation to generation. However not all traditions are practiced with pure intentions.  Some activities become so routine, people don’t know a life outside of them. Societies become so accustomed to “tradition” that they will participate in pastimes without  questioning the ethics or morals of the situation. Ultimately when tradition takes the place of a rationalizing mind the outcome can be incredibly dangerous. The role of tradition is an underlying theme in the short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, forcing readers to ask themselves “At what point do

In Shirley Jackson’s, “The Lottery”, tells the story of a small town that gathers once a year to do a lottery. This isn’t your typical lottery. In this lottery the winner loses instead of winning. The winner is stoned to death as a part of “tradition”. The town people blindly follow this tradition and are unwilling to change. Tradition is one of the main themes in this story and it should be left alone.

Society Runs Everything “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, is a short story with an unexpected outcome. The townspeople gather on June 27th in the warm summer air to hold their annual lottery. The lottery starts off by each head-of-household drawing. The family who receives the slip of paper with the black dot then has each member of the family draw. The final winner--the one who has the paper with the dot--receives the shocking and vile prize of being stoned to death by their fellow townspeople. The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson, uses irony to show how the actions of the townspeople directly reflects ideals society has placed on the entire town.

In Shirley Jacksons story, The Lottery, a small town is stuck in a deadly tradition. A tradition that was continued in the hopes that the towns crops will be plentiful. The character Old Man Warner even talking about the old saying “Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon“ when talking about the lottery to Mr. and Mrs. Adams. The story shows a small town stuck in old ways, and the victim of mob mentality.

In “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson present a story that describes the annual lottery that takes place in a small town in the summer. Since the town was founded the lottery has been a part of its tradition. The original purpose of the lottery was to ensure that the town has an exceptional harvest, but the reason has been lost in time. Now the town held its annual lottery just because it has been their “tradition”. The one who draws the black dotted paper from the black box become the winner, who

The black spot could have come from the coal mine in Mr. Summer’s office. Mr. Hutchinson noticed there was a black spot on the paper his wife had, and remembered the Mr. Summers created it the night before while setting up the lottery. Mr. Hutchinson’s wife was scared to show Bill the paper. Once he forced it away from Tessie and seen the spot, he held up the paper to the crowd no one had spoken.

In a lottery most people are willing to do anything to win, However in one unique town the lottery works a little different. Last week on June, 27th the villagers of Deathstown, Virginia gathered in the time square to hold their annual lottery. The lottery in DeathsTown is very

Shirley Jackson's story, The Lottery is about a group of towns people who meet every year on the 27th of June. On this day a stoning takes place, as it washes away the sins of everyone that lived in the village. However, should the tradition of the stoning be changed when it becomes your time?

In the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, every 27th of June, in the middle of the town, there would be a huge litter of rocks with red “paint” on it. That “paint” is called blood. Surprisingly this day is “special and usual” for nearly everybody in town. They named this event the “Lottery”, the lottery is an event where each head of the household draws a slip of paper from the shaggy, old black box which is older than the oldest person in town, Old Man Warner(78) whichever family gets the black dot on their paper they are the “Winners.” As “winners” each member of the family gets to draw in from the black box, whoever gets the black dot “wins”, as celebration they stone he or she to death. This year the winner is Tessie 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 black box represents, tradition has a more powerful embrace on them. Gradually, as Mr. Summer prepares for the lottery, the rest of the villagers arrive. Mr. Adam attempts to speak of the other villages quitting the lotteries, but Old Man

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.

The short story, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is set on the morning of June 27th in a small village of three hundred people. The story begins with the gathering of families from the village getting together to participate in the lottery. The lottery is lead by Mr.Simmons, a well known man who often runs different events in the village. The rules of the lottery were that for each family named, the head of the family comes up and draws a piece of paper. At the end when everybody has their paper, it is discovered that Bill Hutchinson is the person who got the paper with an ink blot. Immediately his wife,Tessie defends him and asks for a redraw. Mr.Simmons agrees, however, this time the whole family has to draw. In the end, Tessie is the one

Every year a lottery is held in different villages. In one small village the lottery only takes one day. All of the families gather in the town square ready for the lottery. Everyone lets a shady black box with pieces of paper in it decide whether they would live or die. This tradition has been going on before anyone that is still alive today was born. No one even knows why they have a lottery, they just do it to follow tradition. As they hear about other villages discontinue their lotteries people start to wonder, but the oldest man in town, Mr. Warner, talks bad about those villages ending the tradition and stops people from questioning before they even start. In the end the one with the black dot on their paper gets stoned to death