“The Lottery” conveys a darker, societal, ceremonious sacrifice in order to keep tradition, but “The Gift of the Magi” projects sacrifice through selfless love and genuine care for another rather than self. In “The Lottery’s” exposition, Jackson plants us in a seemingly average, peaceful community gathering in the square on the date of what civilians call “the lottery”. The reader perceives, by the author’s tone, that “the lottery” spoken of is similar to that of the twenty-first century in which the chosen wins something of value such as money. The reader also learns that “the lottery” is an annual event that has occurred for many years, a tradition to the people of the town. The story continues and we learn that the lottery is based from families, the head of which is the one to choose from the pot.
A similarity between the writing style of Le Guin and Jackson is their use of both plot and characters to portray the themes of their story. Within Jackson’s “The Lottery” the whole village gathers together for an annual ceremony in which someone is randomly selected to be stoned to death. The theme of blindly following tradition is seen within the lines “Although the villagers has forgotten the ritual and ost the original black box, they still remembered to use stoned. (Jackson 7) The current residents of the village do not even follow the old traditional ritual of the original villagers, and many of them probably do not have the knowledge as to how it was performed, yet every single year they murder a person without knowing the reason behind it. All they know is that they get to throw fling some rocks at a random person and it seems that is all they care about.
La`Michael Boles English 101 Leah Halliday Little Black Box In the story “The Lottery”, by Shirley Jackson, the people of the town believed in holding a lottery every year. They picked one name and then the winner would be killed. They held on to an old black box which they all knew they needed to get rid of, but didn’t. The black box in “The Lottery” represented old traditions, loyalty, and lack of knowledge. The black box represented old traditions in the community.
Another example of Jackson's use of symbolism would be the names of the townspeople. Mr. Summer's name represents the irony in the story because summer is thought to be such a joyous time, but he himself is the lottery official who has presided over this shocking, deadly ritual each and every year. Mr. Summers has to be sworn in to preside over the proceeding by Mr. Graves, “Graves” indicative of the deadly events forthcoming. Perhaps Jackson sought to create balance by using both Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves to share in the ritual's responsibilities to emphasize the allegory of life and
Thesis “The Lottery”, by Shirley Jackson and “The Most Dangerous Game”, by Richard Connell uses setting in very different ways, one uses setting to divert the reader’s attention, while the other one uses these to draw the reader into the story. 1. Introduction 2. Overview of the use of setting a. “The Lottery”, by Shirley Jackson b.
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The Analysis of the Lottery The short story “The Lottery” narrated a story about the people of a small town held an activity of lottery and the person who got the lottery would be hit to death by stones for the sake of harvest of the following year. Read through the whole story, we can know that the lottery completely show the blind obedience, less of rationality and cruel coldness of human nature of the whole town people. In the beginning of the story, the author described a quiet and peaceful, common and beautiful scene of the small town. For example, the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. These descriptions of the surrounding environment gave readers a kind of quiet and peaceful feeling so that it made readers think there would not happen anything bad.
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The shooting star is beautiful and unique, but it is also dying. Duffy portrays the life of the world itself as a short blast of passion and light, which all must come to end. The title reinforces the fact that any death, no matter how small, is still heroic and brave. The bravery of C-A Duffy’s Jewish woman is overwhelming, what she has to go through, devastating. Duffy takes the form of the dramatic monologue, in which she herself becomes the dead Jewish woman, speaking to us from beyond the terrible mass grave.
“The Lottery”: You Cannot Win If You Do Not Play, but Everyone Loses When Tradition is Blindly Followed "‘Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones,’" at this moment the horror of the townspeople’s tradition starts to become apparent (223). The methodical and slowly unfolding process leading up to the murder of Tessie Hutchinson, a citizen of the small, unnamed rural town described in the short story, “The Lottery” provides very little hint of the truly awful nature of this villagers’ long held custom. The author, Shirley Jackson describes how the seemingly normal people of this town proceed to kill one of their own in the name of tradition, with nearly no question of why or what for. Jackson reveals the nature of humans to cling to tradition, even if it leads to awful ends, whether it occurs as a result of habit or laziness. As the antagonist of this story, the villagers’ show the danger of following tradition with questioning their origin or purpose.