Anne Shirley

“The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, is a story about a small town that conducts an annual lottery and whoever wins dies. Throughout the story, Jackson employs the use of situational irony to emphasize her theme of not everything is as normal or good as it seems. First, Jackson uses situational irony in the setting to signify her message in the story. An illustration of this is very early in the story, “The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day…” (Jackson

Many great authors use literary devices to enhance their stories. The short story “The Lottery” written by Shirley Jackson is a great example. Foreshadowing builds suspense by giving readers a hint about the outcome of the story, and irony is used throughout the story to mislead and surprise the reader when they reach the ending. The bloody ending of the story is hinted by vague foreshadowing, which leaves the reader hanging and builds suspense. An prominent example of foreshadowing used to create

Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” is about a bizarre ritual performed in a town in which the townspeople proceed to follow every year. In a black, worn box they place all the names of the community. Once all the names are placed inside, Mr. Summers draws a name. After the name is chosen, this member will be stoned to death by the others in the community. Tessie Hutchinson in the story tries to reject the repetitive tradition of the lottery. In the end of the story Tessie Hutchinson, does

expressed different interpretations of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”. Some believed this story was a parable about the perversions of democracy. While others believed it was a story based upon a protest against the totalitarian government. Granted there is solid evidence to support their theories; I can understand the readers point of view. However, I believe this story was established around a different notion; everyone has a dark side. As stated in the Shirley Jackson’s biography of the Portable

In “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson uses foreshadowing to hint at the stoning of the women. She did this by saying Bobby Martin had stuffed his pockets with stones. For Instance One of the quotes she used to point out the foreshadowing was Bobby Martin had stuffed his pockets with stones. After that, she went on to say, How the other boys went to gather stones, then the boys would go and put the stones in the corner and project them from the other kids. This quotation shows that the kids are gathering

The story “The Lottery” is about a small paganistic town with at least one tradition that definitely would stick out in today's society. In 1948 Shirley Jackson wrote the story “The Lottery”. If you take account for what time period this story was written in you will notice how society has greatly changed from the 1940s to today. Granted, people today are still set in their ways, but now people are more willing to drift away from their family traditions. “The Lottery” is still relevant in today’s

Winning the lottery doesn’t always yield a favorable outcome. In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,” town members live such an example of a consequential “prize” drawing. Humans possess a hardwired trait of competition and savagery that manifests itself with an ironic competition with deadly spoils awarded to the victor. At the core of human existence lies a desire to succeed, and more importantly, to win. In one respect, winning comprising outlasting the other competitors. This “original” (pg.1,p5

At the surface level, The Lottery by Shirley Jackson tells an ironic and grim story in which a seemingly close town stones one of its own citizens to death. However, under the Marxist literary lens, The Lottery describes a modern world where paper money holds value despite its invaluable nature, wealth is spread randomly and unevenly, and the upper class systematically oppress the lower classes of society. Throughout history, currencies have always held a meaningful value. For example, a common

Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is a tale basically about a small town and the people who lived there had to participate in the yearly "lottery". This yearly lottery were not like normal lotteries, no one did not want to win. At the beginning of the story it did not say what type of prize you will win, but they did reveal the prize at the end. Each year the families gathers together and they are required to draw a paper from a black box. The family who wins the winning paper has to put

common, which is tradition. Tradition makes up the very fabric of society. It is a practice that was established in the past and it is still continuing to be celebrated to the president day. For example, the lottery in the story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and the imprisonment of the child in the story “The Ones Who Walks Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. LeGuin. Tradition helps establish the social norms of what is accepted and what is not. The outlook in life that an individual has is heavily