Literary Analysis of “The Lottery” In the year of 1948, author Shirley Jackson wrote a non-forgettable, haunting, short story about a lottery that takes place in a rural city. The author writes the story to take place in a small city in New England. This is not the typical lottery that first comes to mind. This is not a lottery where a one or more lucky winners are chosen at random to be given a great amount of money, but rather a lottery that is held annually in the city and one individual
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good or bad, important or unnecessary, every one celebrates some sort of tradition. In the short story “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson shows us how some people blindly follow tradition just simply because it's tradition. Shirley expresses how extreme people can go to practice tradition or how blindly they can be followed and uses characterization and symbolism to prove it. Shirley uses characterization in her short story to convey her theme of blindly followed tradition. One character she uses for
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The Yearly Event The crowd moved in ready to throw their stones at whomever the lottery chose. In Jackson’s “The Lottery,” the story is brought to life with symbolism, creating a climax that leaves the reader pondering tradition. The story unfolds with the townspeople going about on a normal, picture perfect day. The horror of the black box and the lottery continues year after year because it is a tradition that has been passed down since before anyone can remember. Symbolism is portrayed through
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In the “The Lottery,” the black box represents the tradition of the lottery. They base their attachment on nothing over a story that claims that this black box was made up from pieces of another. Based on the story, the lottery should occur in just this manner because this is how it is always done. However, in the “The Interlopers,” the tree and the wolves indicates symbolically the ascendancy of nature that is compared to the frail and self-important claims of man over specific tracts of land.
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In All Summer in a Day, Ray Bradbury uses symbolism, metaphors and similes to show the children's connection to the sun. The kids can only explain the sun by comparing it to things they know. They always compare the sun to positive things in their life. While some may say All Summer in a Day is about personification and imagery, there are more examples of symbolism, metaphors, and similes in the story. In the kid’s mind the sun can do no wrong, this shows the sun importance to them. In All Summer
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Often times people are misled to believe things about people because of the human nature to assume. A prime example of people assuming things about someone based on appearance is Ms.Strangeworth in the short story The Possibility of Evil by Shirley Jackson. This is a story about Ms.Strangeworth who at first glance appears to be an experienced, dainty, and delightful elderly lady but unfortunately, the truth is very different. Not only is she naive, bitter, but she also assumes things that hurt others
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Lucky In Love- Companion Book Chapter One: Lucky in Love is an example to all of us that money can’t buy happiness. Kasie West, the author, was trying to explain that what we have is enough. Maddie, the protagonist, once said that if she won the lottery all of her problems would be solved and she would be able to live her life as a fairy tale. She would finally have her happily ever after, but she’s convinced that never will she play. Since she says that the probability of being struck like lightning
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The topic of this essay will be whether or not the violence that the children witness as a result of the lottery will affect them later on, and specifically if and how it will affect Davy Hutchinson. The juveniles within this story could be tremendously affected by the aggression and violence they witness in their childhood. The result of ruthless violence from their community’s lottery has the potential to be tragic to the developing mind of the youth. This practice teaches that hurting others is
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In contrary to today’s meaning of the “Lottery”, Shirley Jackson creates her own meaning of “The Lottery,” putting a spin on the preconceived definition. In the beginning of the short story, the author sets a false scene of a nice sunny day with children “playing” and collecting stones and pebbles. Unknown to the reader, the kids and villagers are “blindly” setting up a terrible Shirley Jackson speaks directly to the reader through the use of symbolism to develop the theme of conformity. The quote
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The short story “The Lottery” represents the annual tradition of the community to stone or purge one of their people. They choose one of the people living in the village by letting them draw the paper out of the black box and whoever gets the paper with some marks on it will be the chosen one. Some people in this town seems to dislike this annual tradition and wanting it to stop and some people just doesn’t care at all. However, there is no one speaking up for this to happen. This annual tradition
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