<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0">
  <channel>
    <title>The Lottery Group at eNotes</title>
    <link>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/group</link>
    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the The Lottery Group at eNotes.</description>
    <lastBuildDate>Mon, 9 Nov 2009 19:32:23</lastBuildDate>
    <language>en-us</language>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[The two stories are similar in that they talk about two societies, two...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/what-best-approach-write-comparative-essay-lottery-114365</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The two stories are similar in that they talk about two societies, two discreet groups of people. These are unusual stories because they do not involve the choices and actions of certain individual characters; they involve the choices and actions of the societies as a whole. Identifiable characters are not important to the stories, for all the people in each story act in concert.
So, instead of characters making choices, the societies make...]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/what-best-approach-write-comparative-essay-lottery-114365</guid>
        <pubDate>Mon, 9 Nov 2009 19:32:23 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[When writing a comparative essay on two stories, it is often helpful to...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/what-best-approach-write-comparative-essay-lottery-114365</link>
        <description><![CDATA[When writing a comparative essay on two stories, it is often helpful to spend time in reflection before writing.  For instance, ask what commonalities exist between the two stories.  That is, what themes/moral truths are similar?  Are there any characters who are similar? What similarities exist between methods of narration?
In addition to the already mentioned questions, in the examination of "The Lottery" and "The Ones Who Walk Away...]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/what-best-approach-write-comparative-essay-lottery-114365</guid>
        <pubDate>Mon, 9 Nov 2009 19:23:08 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[What is the best approach to writing a comparative essay on "The...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/what-best-approach-write-comparative-essay-lottery-114365</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What is the best approach to writing a comparative essay on "The Lottery" and "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas?]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/what-best-approach-write-comparative-essay-lottery-114365</guid>
        <pubDate>Mon, 9 Nov 2009 18:37:40 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[Test--Shirley Jackson Short Stories]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/documents/test-shirley-jackson-short-stories-47503</link>
        <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/documents/test-shirley-jackson-short-stories-47503</guid>
        <pubDate> PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[Great question, and one I think deserves attention.  It has a...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/need-some-examples-how-women-were-inferior-108901</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Great question, and one I think deserves attention.  It has a supposition, though, that women are portrayed as inferior in "The Lottery."  I am not sure that is completely true.  Let's take a look for ourselves, shall we?
First, I would say that two of your examples are not very good as proof.  The novel doesn't say that the girls can't collect the stones, it just says that they aren't.

"The girls stood aside, talking among themselves,"
...]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/need-some-examples-how-women-were-inferior-108901</guid>
        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:05:03 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[I need some examples of how the women were inferior and portrayed...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/need-some-examples-how-women-were-inferior-108901</link>
        <description><![CDATA[I need some examples of how the women were inferior and portrayed differently in the story "The Lottery."]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/need-some-examples-how-women-were-inferior-108901</guid>
        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:21:08 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[Story starts describing  the atmosphere of scene, and is drawn a picture...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/lottery-by-shirley-jackson-how-would-you-93063</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Story starts describing  the atmosphere of scene, and is drawn a picture of a dreary summer day. Also he gives a brief report about the people and the lottery.People start to come together for the lottery and we are given information about the participants of the lottery but without touching on the aim of the lottery with a great delicate, so that we are kept in suspense. And this ambiguity helps to sustain the tension of the subsuquent...]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/lottery-by-shirley-jackson-how-would-you-93063</guid>
        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 07:06:42 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[in the real life everyone cares for themselves really. if you put a...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/need-help-answerng-these-questions-what-does-73701</link>
        <description><![CDATA[in the real life everyone cares for themselves really. if you put a group of mens in a room and let them starve for a couple of days and throw in a bread, those guys would go crazy to get the bread. they could fight and hurt the other person so that they alone can have the bread and feel full again. this also happened alot in the holocoust. the germans soliders would not feed the jews lots of food and let them kind of starve, then we see when...]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/need-help-answerng-these-questions-what-does-73701</guid>
        <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:01:47 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[it was the way that these people were raised and how they grew up. like...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/why-they-willing-turn-their-friends-relatives-61643</link>
        <description><![CDATA[it was the way that these people were raised and how they grew up. like the lottery is something that is tradition we see that even though they dont know why they are doing it they still do it. the rules of the lottery is to stone the person that wins no matter who it is, the parents are teaching their kids how the tradition goes by making them help stone the person that won. the kids grow up that no matter who wins family, friends, or lover...]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/why-they-willing-turn-their-friends-relatives-61643</guid>
        <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:57:13 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[the title of this story is ironic because when we see a lottery now days...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/what-sense-storys-title-ironic-77047</link>
        <description><![CDATA[the title of this story is ironic because when we see a lottery now days we imagine that if we win then we get something for winning. in the story when someone wins the lottery it is not something that is good and being happy for. In the story the poor lady get stoned, which is something that wouldnt be liked by most people. we expect to win something in a lottery that makes us happy not to hurt us.]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/what-sense-storys-title-ironic-77047</guid>
        <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:53:07 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[the consequence for following the crowd in "the Lottery" is what it...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/question-wht-consequences-following-crowd-has-2-103289</link>
        <description><![CDATA[the consequence for following the crowd in "the Lottery" is what it seems to me death by stone. so whoever the winner is then that person would go and get stone, they dont tell us if they do it until the person dies but we know that anyone can die from being stone by a lots of people. No one in the crowd knows why they actually do it but they are scared to change traditions.]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/question-wht-consequences-following-crowd-has-2-103289</guid>
        <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:45:38 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[this the short story of Shirley Jackson "The Lotttery" the womens are...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/how-women-protrayed-shirley-jacksons-short-story-108003</link>
        <description><![CDATA[this the short story of Shirley Jackson "The Lotttery" the womens are portrayed as lower than the males. we see that the womens arent really treated good or with respect because they have to power to vote. Most of the things in the town was run by men or by boys that were olded enough. here we see that back then that is how the women were treated with no respect and just for cleaning and cooking, they were more for being a tool than anything...]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/how-women-protrayed-shirley-jacksons-short-story-108003</guid>
        <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:07:14 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[The main point is that anything repeated again and again and without...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/what-does-author-shirley-jackson-accomplish-by-108103</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The main point is that anything repeated again and again and without sanction can seem to be "normal" and acceptable behaviour over time. Such is the case with the villagers, who accept human sacrifice as a 'necessary evil' simply because it is a ritual entrenched in their culture and 'has always been that way.' No moral issue is even raised as to the right or wrong of such a practice since reference points indicating otherwise have long been...]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/what-does-author-shirley-jackson-accomplish-by-108103</guid>
        <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:02:37 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[What does the author, Shirley Jackson, accomplish by showing how...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/what-does-author-shirley-jackson-accomplish-by-108103</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What does the author, Shirley Jackson, accomplish by showing how familiar the proceedings are to the villagers? ]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/what-does-author-shirley-jackson-accomplish-by-108103</guid>
        <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:08:28 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[The women in Shirley Jackson's short story, "The Lottery," are portrayed...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/how-women-protrayed-shirley-jacksons-short-story-108003</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The women in Shirley Jackson's short story, "The Lottery," are portrayed as simple, second-class citizens, subservient to their husbands and even their sons. The men run the show: All of the lottery officials are men, and they gather first, then the women. The men speak of important things, "planting and rain, tractors and taxes." The women merely gossip. The women are not authoritative, for they have to call their children "four or five...]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/how-women-protrayed-shirley-jacksons-short-story-108003</guid>
        <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:12:23 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[How are women portrayed in Shirley Jackson's short story, "The Lottery"?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/how-women-protrayed-shirley-jacksons-short-story-108003</link>
        <description><![CDATA[How are women portrayed in Shirley Jackson's short story, "The Lottery"?]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/how-women-protrayed-shirley-jacksons-short-story-108003</guid>
        <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:18:57 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[The commonplace details and folksy language serve to delude the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/how-do-comonplace-details-life-folksy-language-106867</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The commonplace details and folksy language serve to delude the reader regarding the tone of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."  So, when the denouement comes, the reader is all the more shocked by the nonchalant violence of the townspeople and the children in the serene setting.
Jackson uses her deceptively detached narrator to make an impact on the reader as well as to suggest that all people possess the tendency to enjoy gratuitous...]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/how-do-comonplace-details-life-folksy-language-106867</guid>
        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:30:24 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[How do the comonplace details of life and the folksy language contribute...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/how-do-comonplace-details-life-folksy-language-106867</link>
        <description><![CDATA[How do the comonplace details of life and the folksy language contribute to the impact of the story?]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/how-do-comonplace-details-life-folksy-language-106867</guid>
        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:56:26 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[After the lottery has begun and people are talking amongst themselves as...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/find-quote-statement-story-that-most-likely-104493</link>
        <description><![CDATA[After the lottery has begun and people are talking amongst themselves as the initial phases progress, Old Man Warner expresses his irritation with those who have considered doing away with the practice, saying, "...Used to be a saying about 'Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.'..."  The inclusion of this quote makes it clear to the reader that the practice of holding the lottery was based on a superstition that doing so would result in a...]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/find-quote-statement-story-that-most-likely-104493</guid>
        <pubDate>Thu, 1 Oct 2009 06:50:33 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[Find and quote a statement in the story that most likely explain the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/find-quote-statement-story-that-most-likely-104493</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Find and quote a statement in the story that most likely explain the original purpose of the ritual.]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/lottery/q-and-a/find-quote-statement-story-that-most-likely-104493</guid>
        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:16:31 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
  </channel>
</rss>