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themselves. Jackson acts as a master of literary devices, as she navigates the reader through intense scenes that evoke an emotional response to the experiences of the main character. In the short stories, “The Possibility of Evil” and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, she used the same three literary devices to grasp the reader’s attention from beginning to end. In “The Possibility of Evil” Miss Adela Strangeworth caused a stir by sending anonymous letters to townspeople, filled with things she suspected

Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery, is a realism story that was written for the main purpose of entertainment. Jackson writes about a small village that gathers every year for an event they call “The Lottery”. Every head of households comes up and draws a slip of paper from the box. Bill Hutchinson draws the first slip of paper with the black dot but Tessie Hutchinson quickly exclaims the lottery is not fair. Mr. Summers then puts five slips of paper back into the box, one for each of the family members

Jack and Piggy are two essential characters who are pivotal to the plot of Golding’s Lord of the Flies. The two have many differences, and counteract each other. However, there are also many similarities between the two. Jack and Piggy are, in a way, polar opposites of each other; Piggy is the force of logic, reason and sanity, but Jack is the force of instinct, impulse, and brute strength. The two opposite counteract each other, until instinct finally defeats logic. They are very different because

The Lottery is a short story written by Shirley Jackson published in the New Yorker in 1948. The setting takes place in a small town in America made up of about 300 residents on a beautiful sunny June day. The main characters in the lottery are Tess Hutchinson a housewife, Mr. Summers the town leader who officiates the lottery and Bill Hutchinson. Tessa's husband. Some supporting characters are Miss Delacroix, Tessa's friend Mr. Graves and Davey Hutchison, Tess and Bill's young son. The plot of the

Sunday, October 5th 1968, was a bright and sunny day on Insula Floruit. A day when even the dark shadowy parts of the island, were shining and glowing like a burning fire in the night. This was a very memorable day for Todd and Sarah, vacationers from Kansas Missouri, just enjoying their vacation on the most beautiful island they've ever seen. Sarah and Todd found out about the island from a newspaper ad, advertising a new island open for the public, the island was so new neither of the two were

David Ogden Stiers once said “Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten”. In Shirley Jackson’s,”The Lottery,” talks about an ordinary town that does this annual tradition of doing the lottery. The lottery is done by the man of each family draws a piece of paper from a black faded box. Afterwards, the family of the man who was chosen comes up to the lottery stage and also picks a piece of paper. The family member that has the black dot wins the lottery. Typically, in lotteries the winners

tradition takes over their life. In “The Lottery” the townsfolk gather for what at first seems like a harmless, fun tradition, a yearly lottery. But, as the story progresses it becomes apparent that there is more going on that first meets the eye. Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” uses symbolism to show the theme: tradition isn’t always right, dialogue to get readers predicting and start to reveal the sinister nature of what was really going on in the story, and revealing actions to raise the

Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a short story where a small town in New England has a lottery. The small town has their annual lottery around June which have been practiced for over seventy years. This lottery is not your regular lottery, this one consists of drawing slips. Slips are small white papers that holds every family’s name that lives in the village and only one of those slips have a black dot in the middle, whoever gets the slip with the black dot is stoned to death. Shirley Jackson uses

In Jackson’s short story, “The Lottery”, multiple different aspects of gothic literature are shown. In a small town, where many families met annually, the “lottery” takes place, conducted by Mr. Summers. Families gather around together, and the men of the household draw out slips of paper from a black box once their name is called. One piece of paper has a black symbol on it, which no one wants to get. It is clear in this story that there is a bleak setting, tortured characters, and dark events.

In Shirley Jackson's story, “The Lottery”, she expresses her feelings on why the people of the village blindly follow certain parts of the inhumane tradition, while allowing others to be disregarded without question. For instance, a villager is selected at random to be stoned to death. This conveys the reader to understand some of the traditions were cruel, and allows them to foresee the result of the traditions that took place in the village. Shirley Jackson uses symbolism throughout her story to