The Lottery Shirley Jackson

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An Action of Terror By Crystalynn Davis English 1302(Online) Mrs. Pamela Hesser August 4, 2013 Crystalynn Davis 1302(Online) Aug. 4, 2013 Works Cited Arp, Thomas R., and Greg Johnson. "The Lottery." Perrine's Story and Structure. Thirteenth ed. Boston: Heinle, 2008. 220-227. Print. May, Charles E. “Shirley Jackson’s THE LOTTERY.” Short Story Writers (2008): 259-230. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. Web. 4 Aug 2013. Oehlschlaeger, Fritz. "The Stoning of Mistress Hutchinson: Meaning and Context in 'The Lottery'." Essays in Literature 15.2 (Fall 1988): 259-265. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Roger Matuz and Cathy Falk. Vol. 60. Detroit: Gale Research, 1990. Literature Resource Center. Web. 4 Aug. 2013. Ragland, Martha. "Shirley Jackson." American Novelists Since World War II: Second Series. Ed. James E. Kibler. Detroit: Gale Research, 1980. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 6. Literature Resource Center. Web. 4 Aug. 2013. Crystalynn Davis 1302(Online) Aug. 4, 2013 "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson uses a number of literary devices to create a story that is impossible to forget. We're all comfortable with yearly rituals and it's often not known how these celebrations began. We associate lotteries with good things and annual celebrations also seem pleasant.…show more content…
The reader has to feel the attachment of the story when they could easy miss it. The end of the story needs to feel like a curve ball has been thrown and not something totally surprising. In the second paragraph, it reads, “Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example, selecting the smoothest and roundest stones” (220). No explanation of this has been given yet and it is possible that most readers will miss the significance. It makes the end of the story a realization rather than a
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