Shirley MacLaine

One can see by examining the poetic justice of the murder at the end, and the foreshadowing of the strange murder weapons, the rocks, in The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, that this story is a classic archetypal horror story. Firstly, one can see that when Tessie Hutchinson, the wife of Bill Hutchinson, was the only one late for the lottery, she wins the lottery, and then is killed. This is an example of poetic justice. Poetic justice, also known as Karma, is the fitting or deserving punishment or…

At first, the story was very complicated to understand, because the author is very descriptive and while I was reading the text, I had a presentiment of uncertainty. Then, I took my time to read it and now, I think it’s clearer in my head. Normally, the lottery is a fun event, but not in this short story. It really surprised me that we are talking about stoning and death at the end of it. I think the author wanted us to understand what was really happening, only in the end. At the beginning,…

Lottery by Shirley Jackson is about a small village in the 50s with a sinister tradition. Every year they have a lottery where you don't want to win. Instead of a hefty cash reward you are stoned to by not only your fellow villagers but your family and friends. They are still doing the lottery because they think this will help with growing crops and they don't want to embrace change so they still believe in this far-fetched story. It was once a sacrifice but turned into a recurring tradition.…

According to Merriam Webster Dictionary a scapegoat is a person who is unfairly blamed for something that others have done. The word "scapegoat" originates from a practice in the Old Testament in which the high priest put his hands on a goat that has been chosen by lot and, in the belief that the person sin has been put upon the goat. The goat is then turned loose in the wilderness. Consequently, the concept was widened to take account of human beings who had been taken away from their…

The Lottery is a story about a ritual held every year in which everyone participates as a way of keeping order and following tradition. After names are drawn, the one that ends up with a black-dotted slip is murdered by the townspeople using stones. This plot of the story enables the author to prove a point; human society blindly follows traditions without any background information or factual reassurance. Although this ritual has been altered, the main idea of the ceremony, to kill or injure a…

What Is The Purpose Of The Lottery? “It isn’t fair, It isn’t right”, Tessie Hutchinson screaming in fear. In the story “The Lottery” written by Shirley Jackson, which takes place around the 1950’s, shows how important miserable tradition are important to people, even thought at the end of every year’s lottery a person that won the lottery is stoned to death. If a person from your family wins the lottery it's not a good thing, it's actually a deadly thing because you will get stoned to death…

Popular author Shirley Jackson arguably pioneered the fictional dystopian genre with her short story “The Lottery”. Inspired by the hardships of the Second World War, the narrative elements of “The Lottery” signify the traits of a primal, dysfunctional, and ritualistic society. This is exemplified throughout the narrative as the plot, characters, and setting, all symbolize a particular aspect of a primitive dystopia. In the beginning of “The Lottery”, Jackson describes a ceremonious…

In the story “ The Lottery” there's two characters that were one of the important ones or had a big role in the story. The two characters were Tessie and Mr. Summers. Winning a lottery will not always be a good thing. Sometimes if you win the lottery you can get a positive thing out of it or if you win the lottery you can get a negative thing or a bad things out of it. Tessie was a women in the middle age. She likes to mess around. Her goals is to survive the lottery. In the story her…

The continuing of the tradition and the people of the town who are partaking in the lottery are to blame on tragedy that the lottery represents. This is because they are the ones who blindly follow and accept the ghastly tradition. With it being a tradition no one seems to want to object or withdraw from the lottery. The people of the town do not eradicate the tradition of the lottery since sacrificing one has been passed down from their ancestors. The lottery box “had been constructed when the…

Kino’s Other Side Have you ever wondered what can make people lose their sanity? In the book, The Pearl by John Steinbeck, it answers that very question about Kino’s sanity. Kino had a rather normal life before finding something so valuable no one should possess. It would change the course of Kino and his family's life, and their future indefinitely. It had all started when Kino had awoken to the little crashes of the waves on the beach. He got up to watch the sunrise over the…