Shirley Institute

The popular skating brand SkateBiz have recently announced that they’re bringing the inaugural skating competition to Dicky beach. There have been many reactions, both negative and positive from the community. Some believe that the comp is an immensely positive effect on the community and, ordinarily, people who believe this new craze of skaters is nothing but trouble after the skatepark was recently shut down, due to the increasing amount of vandalism and underage drinking. Moreover local father

The short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is about a village who have an annual lottery where the winner is stoned to death. I think the purpose of the lottery is for a tradition when the town first started, but now it has turned into entertainment. One piece of evidence is “The original paraphernalia for the lottery had been lost long ago, and the black box now resting on the stool had been put into use even before Old Man Warner, the oldest man in town (pg. 16 line 70-74).” This shows

We are introduced to Katniss Everdeen, a wise and young women how aren’t afraid of anything. She loves to be outdoors, and to hunt with a bow and arrow. We get an insight about Panem, where the story takes place. It is a country that was created after the North America’s government collapsed. Each year the government holds a game as a punishment for the rebellion that happened. The day has come when two persons from each district is getting chosen as tributes for the game. From the day they turn

transferred your sin to a lamb, making you clean and worthy again of divine attention. Although Shirley Jackson does not make it clear the need for a scapegoat in her story, the village must provide an annual sacrifice. She makes it clear at several points that the reason for the “lottery” has been forgotten, “although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box…”. Shirley Jackson is likely trying to draw a comparison to many religious rituals, that might take place

"Break a leg!" someone yells out towards their friend. Expressing, in an odd way, that they wish them luck in the task they are about to do. Luck is a superstitious topic to most people. A majority would say it just doesn't exist. However, that depends upon the way one looks at the meaning of luck. In the quote by Oprah Winfrey stating that "luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity", she expresses the way I, too, feel about this term. She conveys that luck isn't some magical thing that

Character analysis of Mr. Summers The Lottery by: Shirley Jackson is a short story that takes place in 1948 about tradition in a small town. This tradition happened to be a lottery system in which the winner is stoned to death. The announcer of the lottery is Mr.Summers which is the character I decided to analyze. While reading this story I found many characteristics about him through his body language, voice and physical characteristics. I found throughout this book he showed he was eager, traditional

I was able to gather this by seeing key words such as “they” and: “Tessie Hutchinson was late.” There are many characters in “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, such as Mr. Graves, The children, Tessie Hutchinson, Mr. Summers. Etc. But one of the ones that really stuck out is Mr. Summers. He is the only character that the narrator goes into detail about; even if it’s not the typical description.

What comes to mind when you hear the word lottery? Do the words money or luck pop in your head? This is not the case in a small village that has a special kind of “lottery”. However the catch is that whoever wins this so called “lottery” is sacrificed so the village can have good crops in the following fall. In the story there are two characters, Tessie hutchinson and Mrs. delacroix, that change their attitude and show two sides of humanity. Tessie Hutchinson is a stay at home mom , she has two daughters

It has been called many things, Corn Toss, Bean Bag, Bean Toss, Soft Horseshoes, Indiana Horseshoes, but the official name is Cornhole. It has been said that the game originated in Germany in the 14th century, and then was rediscovered in the hills of Kentucky over 100 years ago! Cornhole or Corn Toss is similar to horseshoes except you use wooden boxes called cornhole platforms and corn bags instead of horseshoes and metal stakes. Contestants take turns pitching their corn bags at the cornhole

2.2 The Lottery The main theme of the story expresses the notion of human scapegoat which has a devastating effect due to the crowd psychology that is presented in the story. The scenic setting stated in the beginning of the story highly opposes with the horrific violence that the story comes to. It mentions it being a beautiful summer day with flowers "blossoming profusely" and the grass "richly green” ,giving the reader to predict that the story is going to end just as well as the beginning