One example of a character is Old Man Warner. When someone tells him they have quit doing the lottery Burge, 2 in other communities he says “pack of crazy fools” (Jackson, 3). Another character that explains theme is the Hutchison family. Even though everyone was worried that Little Dave would get picked no one resisted against the lottery. Also Tessie tried objecting and no one took her side and helped her.
The lives of the people in the town are basically jeopardized due to this yearly ritual, the “lottery”. The people of the town, are obsessed with tradition that they forget their purpose of action and the effects it may contain. “Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones.” The Lottery, page 71 line 221. The villagers are blinded by tradition that they do not see the cause of their actions. Tradition and rituals are basically stoning a human to death and in this case Tessie Hutchinson who is chosen among the villagers.
Creed types a suicide note about how everyone makes fun of him and how “people wish [he was] dead” (36-37). Chris felt that he didn’t belong in the town of Steepleton, and nobody knows where he went. In his suicide note, he wrote that Torey has a perfect life. He didn’t mention Ali, his next door neighbor. Rumor has it that she is “passing through high school on her back” (42).
Alaura Bouvier Bouvier 1 Anna Wauthy English 091 January 30, 2012 The Lottery In the short story, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, a horrific tradition occurs every June 27th and no one in the village tries to put an end to it. Every year an innocent person, or child, names are entered into a black box. This box is made from an older black box and it contains relics from the past. Then someone’s name is drawn and then killed by the villagers. Everyone in the village is okay with allowing a murder to happen because of this tradition.
When people tend to hear the word tradition, without a doubt they would think of something in relation to good or positive. Yet it was a different scenario in “The Lottery” and was very shocking to many readers. People were stoned and killed year after year for apparently no reason other than it being a tradition. No one knows where it came from or how it all started, they just kept it running. Everyone in town participated in the lottery from even the youngest children to the oldest people.
In “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson describe June 27, the day the lottery is held as a normal everyday life for the towns people in a small town called Anytown, USA, in the story Jackson addresses the day of the lottery as a normal quite and pleasant day. In my opinion the lottery is a cruel bizarre tradition that note of the towns people thought to question the ritual on why an individual get stoned to death their very own towns people. Jackson uses simple objects to symbolize cruelty and unfairness to human life. In the beginning Jackson describes how the children were getting out of school the girls talking among themselves and the boys gathering stones. The stones symbolize horrific murder weapons.
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.
Annie Keene Mr. Cummings English 9H 29 October 2013 “The Lottery” In the short story, “The Lottery”, Shirley Jackson focuses on a small town whose villagers conduct a yearly lottery, in which the person who draws a piece of paper containing a block spot on it gets stoned to death by the remaining villagers. Although within this tradition there involves a human sacrifice, the villagers remain obedient to the society there were raised in, and contribute to it. It is through the loyalty of characters Old Man Warner and Davy Hutchinson, the setting of an old fashioned town, as well as the symbols of the black box and black spot that display the primary theme that people born into a society follow its traditions, reluctant to change, for they
'Cry about the simple hell people give other people'. Discuss with reference to To kill a mockingbird and comment on whether it's a pessimistic novel In to kill a mockingbird, we see all kinds of hell people give each other as said by the character Dolphus Raymond, and how innocent people suffer in different ways as a result. There is the hell of family life, Dill never had a father, 'I haven't got one' and his mother once remarried didn't want him around. So 'he just gets passed around from relatives to relatives and Miss Rachel keeps him every summer'. Unlike Scout and Jem, he has never felt the love and security a child ought to feel.
One could be the absence of parents. Andy never had anyone to look up to, a role model during his childhood, the only exception being Chris Reynolds, which seemingly only resulted in turning things for the worse. The sentence “It’s only me” describes Andy’s situation very well, because even though he met Josh and Reynolds they, in the end, was guilty as to why Andy committed the school shooting. Josh tried to push the responsibility away from himself, but he was a part of what caused Andy to go over the edge, he pushed him and made him commit the shooting amongst many others. No one was ever there for him.