Sherman Alexie’s short essay “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” is about Alexie’s personal struggles and joys of literacy. Early in the essay Alexie explains how he started to learn to read by first understanding how paragraphs worked. Alexie started using the analogy that his reservation was a small paragraph within the United States just like a paragraph is a small part of a much larger story. Once he understood paragraphs, he then moved to Superman comics. Alexie also read from his father's vast collection of books, which were acquired mostly from pawnshops and second hand stores since paychecks were far and few between on the reservation.
A Response to Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery Although The Lottery was a little difficult for me to get into – I actually ended up listening to the audio version as I read along – Shirley Jackson incorporated key elements of what is expected in a descriptive-style piece and did a decent job of conveying an image of what it might have been like to be there. Her description of the villagers gathering and the restless chaos that took place before the lottery, aided me in visualizing what that day may have been like. Within the first few paragraphs parts like, “The school age children played boisterously,” “the women greeted one another,” and the men “speaking of planting and rain, tractors and taxes,” all had me envisioning that this was an
This meeting only occurred one time lasting less than one day. The size of the group was twelve adult, Caucasian males Initially, the group developed a coalition of 11-1 in favor of voting the defendant guilty. The group gave the lone not guilty voter a chance to explain. Further votes revealed the development of a stronger coalition towards voting the defendant not guilty as many were swayed by the presenting evidence. The history or background of the jury was quite significant.
The Wizard Of Oz Populist Essay The Wizard of Oz, written by Frank Baum was said to be a simple children’s story. Although Baum proclaimed this, there were many signs in the book for it to be a parable on populism. Although this proclaim may be true, the story is very consistent in it’s underlying details of populist ideas. In the story Dorothy represents the innocent American People; she gains the silver shoes, which represents the Silver Movement where the US could coin an unlimited amount of silver, an inflationary measure to help debt-ridden farmers. This went hand in hand with the Gold Standard, an insufficient way for upper class citizens to maintain economic power.
Kenyatta Taylor Professor Main English 50 2 May 2012 Craft analysis “The Lottery” is successful as a short story because of the characters that serve to advance the plot and because of the way author Shirley Jackson establishes her setting to give the reader a clear perception of what is taking place. Though this is not exactly an action-packed story, the reader can still uncover bits of information about characters through the few actions and dialogue that one does see. In addition, the setting gives the reader a clear understanding of what is taking place very early on and also serves to orient the reader. The setting also gives the reader the illusion that this story could be real and in effect, also contributes to both characterization and underlying theme. Jackson uses flat characters as a means to propel the plot.
The Lottery is a short story by Shirley Jackson which is about a tradition, the lottery, held in a village every year. The theme of the story is about the danger of following a baseless and illogical tradition. Throughout the story, irony is heavily used on the lottery itself. In the beginning of the story, Jackson positively described the setting of the story by stating “The flowers were blossoming and the grass was richly green.” (pg.74) and the villagers talking to each other gracefully. However, a person is about to get chosen to get stoned to death.
This knowledge delighted me. I began to think of everything in terms of paragraphs. Our reservation was a small paragraph within the United States. ” (Sherman Alexis) After reading that I was both appalled and jealous. The average three year old can barely even talk but, for him to be able to read and understand sentence structure at the age of three was just amazing.
Reader Response #2: The Lottery “The Lottery” is a short story written by Shirley Jackson and published in 1948. The title of the story initially leads readers to believe the story is going to be about someone winning some kind of prize. Even the opening of the story seems to protest any foul play or cruel behavior. What the reader is introduced to is a seemingly friendly gathering of a small village community, members all gathered around anxiously awaiting their drawing for the lottery. The village members all chatter amongst one another in a tone that kind neighbors would take with one another.
In the plays A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen and Othello by William Shakespeare and the novel Great Gatsby by Gerald Fitzgerald, the theme sexuality is portrayed throughout all three pieces of work. Each main character in their respective novels uses the theme as a device to better their situations. The first work that portrays sexuality is A Doll’s House. We meet Nora who has two sides to her. The readers see both sides; however everyone else only sees one side of her including her husband Torvald Helmer.
Shelly Kasper Jodi Stapleton English 1102 The lottery symbolism “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a short story about how every citizen in a small town is forced to take part in the annual lottery. What the reader soon finds out is that this is not the type of lottery that one would want to win, and the only reason why the town holds this type of lottery every year is because of tradition. A cheerful tone seems to be set from the very beginning when Jackson describes a warm sunny summer’s day; school is just getting out and everyone appears content. Next she describes the children and adults gathering stones for the lottery. This is the first event that makes the reader question the action of the townspeople.