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.
Before the lottery can begin, they make a list of all the families and households in the village. Mr. Summers mixes up the slips of paper in the box then is sworn in. Tessie Hutchinson joins the crowd, flustered because she had forgotten that it was the day of the lottery. She joins her husband and children at the front of the crowd, and people joke about her late arrival. The rising action of the plot
The Hutchinson family was the unfortunate winners of the first round and then they had to pick among themselves. Mrs. Hutchinson makes an accusation that her husband simply did not have enough time to draw a good slip of paper. This was the first conflict in this story. A woman, who previously had no objections to this yearly event, is now protesting the unfairness of the outcome because she was the unfortunate one. By reading this story you begin to wonder what the lottery really I because if it was really a lottery that would be the wrong response to a good thing.
After the fight there was a rug with money on it to pay the boys for the fight. They were told to take whatever they could get their hands on. When the boys went for the money they were shocked by the coins as a prank to please the white folk in the room. The boys were released and told to go home, but the young teen still had to give his speech. He was put on a podium and started to give the speech.
In the story of “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, author tells about the story of the lottery that it has been doing every year. They do the lottery as a tradition that they must do in summer time. They do the lottery right before harvest season, and they must to kill the winner of the lottery to make their harvest better. They do this tradition for years and years without any question why they need to kill someone for that reason. People think that this tradition makes them becoming madness because this tradition costs the life of people.
Katniss eventually fails to convince the Nation and a rebellion breaks out against the capital. Katniss of course is blamed and her family could get killed for her foolishness as punishment but she is determined to keep them safe. Every twenty-five years the game makers of the Hunger Games step it up to make things more interesting. This year as the 75th annual Hunger Games, all f the victors of the past must be provided as the tributes witch means once again, Katniss and Peeta must fight to the death once again. However, Katniss’s only intention is to allow Peeta to win the games and be crowned victor.
His punishment was to spend 6 months in this camp digging from the darkest part of the day until the brightest part of the day. I had a feeling he was innocent from the beginning because of how he was always getting picked on by other kids even though he was the biggest one in his class. His parents describe him as a good boy who just had bad luck. Later in the book you discover he was innocent, just as I had thought. As the story progressed I thought Stanley learned how to stick up for his self.
But the summer before my eight grade year I really wanted to learn how to play the drums. So I started taking lessons and I loved how difficult it was and I loved it. I had only been going to lessons for about two months and there was an incoming freshmen night for La Cueva at the Halloween football game and so we all went so we could play our instrument with the high
One aspect of tradition is that it may be passed down from one generation to the next through its practice. This ensures that the tradition survives. Jackson writes, “Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example…eventually they made a great pile of stones in one corner of the square and guarded against the raids of the other boys.” (Jackson 422) It is shown that children’s behavior is influenced by the actions of their parents; they naively utilize the behavior as a part of their play. The children seem to grasp the concept of what the lottery means to the town as they play, protecting the stones as if they were gold. “The children had stones already, and someone gave little Davy Hutchinson few pebbles.” (Jackson 428) This shows that the people would go to great lengths to ensure that traditions are followed and passed along.
Discussion The movie opens with Charlie (Logan Lerman) writing a letter to an anonymous pen pal, discussing his upcoming first day in high school and his plan to turn things around by visualizing the last day of his senior year which is 1,385 days from that day. On his first day, Charlie thought that her sister Candace (Nina Dobrev) and her boyfriend Derek (Nicholas Braun) along with the Earth Club members would let him eat with them at lunch time, but they didn't. So he thought that his old friend Susan in middle school would want to have lunch with him, but Susan doesn't want to be her friend anymore. And then, Brad Hays which is his brother’s friend, but he thought that Brad is a senior and he's just a freshmen. On his shop class, one senior student decided to make fun of the teacher instead of the freshmen.