Essay On Symbolism In The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

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Symbolism is a technique used by many authors; Shirley Jackson was one of them who used the techniques. Symbolism is an object that is bigger than what it already is. Every year on June 27th, "The Lottery" Is held early because its traditions to these people but most of these people participate in this tradition and don't know what's going on. People are being sacrificed or put to death by stoning them. The villagers should be more talkative amongst each other and discuss by themselves because they need to know what they're getting themselves into. In Shirley Jackson’s, “The Lottery,” the author creates a story that has a lot of symbolism, Irony and a ritualized tradition that makes evil, which ultimately signifies how people blindly follow …show more content…

Graves. According to website 123 help me; he symbolizes "the sacrificial killing being cause by the lottery".
In the story Mr. Graves followed Mr. Summers, "caring a three legged stool." Also, he was a helper and he knew that someone had to be sacrificed. Another character is Old man Warner, he symbolizes warning.
According to123 help me website, "he claims the young folks are pack of crazy fools and that nothing is good enough for them." in the article he says that they'll be wanting to live in caves nobody will work anymore, and live that way for a while. From what I can get from this quote is that old man Warner is the type of man that is suck on the old ways and doesn't want to change anything. He tries to enforce tradition to the community. According to 123 help me website, "he is holding the community back from the good changes that could occur." in the article he quotes that "there has always been a lottery." He was trying to say that there has always been one and they shouldn't change it. Also, I think that old man Warner is the person who trying to warn the villagers that if they give up the lottery bad things will …show more content…

The Lottery had so much symbolism. The lottery meant picking a piece of white paper with a black dot on it and if you had that paper you were the "sacrificial lamb for that year." Old Man Warner Enforced tradition because he was worried that if they changed the tradition that things would get bad. Also, he warned a lot of the people not to change the old tradition because then people wouldn't do anything like how they would now. Maybe next time the villagers talk about it with their friends or family maybe even the town's people about the tradition that happens every year on June 27th of every summer, so that they get a feeling for what's going when the day comes

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