The Lottery
In the short story "The Lottery" the author, Shirley Jackson, surprises readers with an unexpected turn of events. First time readers can define her description for her setting as insignificant, but after reading it once it brings curiosity on how readers misinterpreted on what seemed normal but were actual symbols and foreshadowing to the tragic outcome. As Jackson uses symbolism throughout her story she captures reader’s attention not only because of the human sacrifice but the story itself reflects present people 's traditions or religions.
Traditions have existed throughout the entire human existence by “[transmitting] customs or beliefs from generation to generation.” As Jackson uses children to illustrate the innocence or …show more content…
currency. The practice of religion has been and is presently still one of our inalienable rights, but do we really know what we are practicing? For instance, Christians who have a
“relationship” with their God claims to bring a sense of freedom but in order for them to have that feeling they have to follow commandments and rules in which the question on whether or not they are really free comes into play. This all comes in relation with Jackson short story when she is describing the children out of school being free during their summer break but still having
“the feeling of liberty [which] sat uneasily.” She wraps her nonfictional story with real world
problems that draw the audience’s attention because religion plays a big role in everyone’s lives, especially in America.
The black box had deep symbolism as well as the three legged stool. The color black itself has a universal meaning of death and coincidentally determined the future martyr. My view of the three legged stool represents the trinity. To believers, God has all the power in his hands in similar to the stool which carries the decision on who was going to be martyred that …show more content…
Tales told today are most likely different than the original stories told within the first generations. Just as stories are different, the customs of the villagers changed throughout time.
Just as “rituals had been forgotten” and they substituted “chips of wood” used to fill the box with names to “slips of papers” modern religions customs changed. Same as the rituals the way people do the Lord’s supper now has changed not only with food but also in prayer. In many churches instead of drinking wine and eating a piece of bread many substituted the Lord’s supper to drinking grape juice and crackers.
Growing up in a church, people listen to the same stories over and over to the point in where they only “half listened” to the sermon. Something in where people have heard multiple times they feel that they no longer need to hear because they know everything in that matter.
Commented [1]: this paragraph doesn 't really fit in with everything you are trying to say...... at least in my opinion Having the story relatable to average lives it attracts humans and this is why Jackson’s short story became very famous in the literary world because there are so many
In the short story "The Lottery" the author, Shirley Jackson, surprises readers with an unexpected turn of events. First time readers can define her description for her setting as insignificant, but after reading it once it brings curiosity on how readers misinterpreted on what seemed normal but were actual symbols and foreshadowing to the tragic outcome. As Jackson uses symbolism throughout her story she captures reader’s attention not only because of the human sacrifice but the story itself reflects present people 's traditions or religions.
Traditions have existed throughout the entire human existence by “[transmitting] customs or beliefs from generation to generation.” As Jackson uses children to illustrate the innocence or …show more content…
currency. The practice of religion has been and is presently still one of our inalienable rights, but do we really know what we are practicing? For instance, Christians who have a
“relationship” with their God claims to bring a sense of freedom but in order for them to have that feeling they have to follow commandments and rules in which the question on whether or not they are really free comes into play. This all comes in relation with Jackson short story when she is describing the children out of school being free during their summer break but still having
“the feeling of liberty [which] sat uneasily.” She wraps her nonfictional story with real world
problems that draw the audience’s attention because religion plays a big role in everyone’s lives, especially in America.
The black box had deep symbolism as well as the three legged stool. The color black itself has a universal meaning of death and coincidentally determined the future martyr. My view of the three legged stool represents the trinity. To believers, God has all the power in his hands in similar to the stool which carries the decision on who was going to be martyred that …show more content…
Tales told today are most likely different than the original stories told within the first generations. Just as stories are different, the customs of the villagers changed throughout time.
Just as “rituals had been forgotten” and they substituted “chips of wood” used to fill the box with names to “slips of papers” modern religions customs changed. Same as the rituals the way people do the Lord’s supper now has changed not only with food but also in prayer. In many churches instead of drinking wine and eating a piece of bread many substituted the Lord’s supper to drinking grape juice and crackers.
Growing up in a church, people listen to the same stories over and over to the point in where they only “half listened” to the sermon. Something in where people have heard multiple times they feel that they no longer need to hear because they know everything in that matter.
Commented [1]: this paragraph doesn 't really fit in with everything you are trying to say...... at least in my opinion Having the story relatable to average lives it attracts humans and this is why Jackson’s short story became very famous in the literary world because there are so many