The Lottery By Shirley Jackson Analysis

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The lottery is a dramatic story that deals with different aspects of the world. The lottery is a story that starts with everyone coming together to play a town game called the lottery, and every family in the village is gathered in one place for it. it starts with everyone smiling and talking to make the reader think it’s a good and friendly story but really they are all gathered there to play the lottery and all the head of the families come and pick a paper out of the black box, and which every person pick the paper with a black dot gets stoned to death by the whole town. The lady who got stoned to death in the story was yelling this is wrong but no one was listening to her because they thought it was the right thing to do. This is a tradition …show more content…

The lottery itself symbolizes a game that people play to win prices and money but in this story it’s actually the opposite of that, people are playing to kill not win. I believe the author Shirley Jackson thesis of this story was to tell us that the world is blind because they follow traditions and rituals without questioning it. I think she got her message across because when I fully read the story I understood the same thing. My view of this story is that people follow rituals and believes without knowing if its right or wrong, and it’s been going on for too long, and has been passed for down for generations that people became so use to it that they don’t know how evil and wrong it is. That’s why people don’t want to change anything because they are scared it would ruin the traditions their ancestors have been keeping for a long time, so that’s why the people in the lottery stuck to their …show more content…

Shirley Jackson uses a lot of symbolism in this story like when it says” bobby martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stone, or when the villagers made a pile of stones”. The black box also represents symbolism because it shows that the evil has been going on for a long time in these traditions and when someone or something wants to change it they refuse it because they don’t want to change a tradition that has been going on for too long. . “Mr. Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box”. This story is in chronological

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