Response To The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

The lottery is a short story written by Shirley Jackson. The author lived from 1916 to when she died in 1965. The story was published in June of 1948 in an issue of “The New Yorkers”. When I first read this story I thought it was talking about the kind of lottery we have today. I quickly realized that was not the case, but that it was about system where someone is sacrifice for the sake of the crops. The lottery was actually not necessary but was a tradition that they kept following. The crops would have grew even if they had not sacrifice someone.

The story is about how every year on June 27, this village in the story hold a lottery. The lottery is where the leader of the household comes and receive a piece of paper. Whichever house hold

The story started off with the boys gathering the stones in a pile, for the stoning which was later. Next in the story the men come in, followed lastly by the women. It was telling us the events as they occurred, as some stories tell you by a point of view. The author seemed like a narrator rather than a person who is in the story trying to telling us the story, while be in the middle of it all. The story seems like a play, you are told the things as they would appear on stage if it was a play.

The style of the work is one of it just conversation and a ritual occurring and the author telling us about it, like we are reading a newspaper article. Throughout the story, it is shown that you need some kind of imagination to be able to picture everything that is occurring in the story. The story is very effective in capturing the audience, with describing the day.

The author treated the topic very well in how she explained it. She does this by explaining so we understand and can follow the story as we learn about everything occurring in the story. The author also made sure that we understood the reason the lotter was set up, but it was never clear why they still do the lottery to this day. The tradition is so old that the oldest person in town, does not know when it was started because it happened before he was born. Also they are on the second box for the drawings because the first box basically just fell apart, it was so