The Lottery

The Lottery has been craftily shown in both the movie and the text in a suspenseful and dark manner, telling the same story, they show it with many similarities but also with many differences, in the showing and typing of the setting, characters, and the plot setting. In the Lottery text, the lottery took place in the morning, probably some time between the beginning of work and lunch, in a square, where they all met up. I can come to the conclusion that the lottery was in between lunch and the start of work because it says “‘Well, now.’ Mr. Summers said soberly, ‘guess we better get started, get this over with, so’s we can go back to work. Anybody ain’t here?’” which means that it must be sometime in work. The Lottery text also explained how the children stacked a pile of stones before the lottery started. In the text it says, “Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example, selecting his smoothest and roundest stones; Bobby and Harry Jones and Dickie Delacroix-- the villagers pronounced his name ‘Dellacroy’-- eventually ma...