-
The Lottery
In a broad, general sense, the lottery system from the story represents old traditions that people blindly follow for the sake of following tradition. The people in the story do the lottery and...
-
The Lottery
Rituals are a part of life. A society or culture completes them without thinking about why they do; it's just something that has always been done. While rituals can unite communities and give them...
-
The Lottery
As noted, "The Lottery" is comparable to the events of World War II, especially in the unthinking continuation of customary persecution (e.g., the German abuses against Jews in the Holocaust)....
-
The Lottery
Tessie Hutchinson is the main character of the story, who is an outspoken mother of three and becomes the community's scapegoat after she draws the slip of paper with a black spot on it. Despite...
-
The Lottery
On the morning of the annual lottery, the sun is shining and it is a beautiful summer day. Jackson writes that the flowers are in full blossom and the grass is "richly green" as the community...
-
The Lottery
The two stories are alike in that a woman dies—a victim of the society into which she is born. However, in the case of "The Lottery" Tessie Hutchinson's gender is not the reason she is victimized...
-
The Lottery
In the story we learn that The lottery was conducted—as were the square dances, the teen club, the Halloween program—by Mr. Summers, who had time and energy to devote to civic activities....
-
The Lottery
Several of the characters in "The Lottery" have particularly apposite names. Old Man Warner takes on a monitory role—warning against the foolishness of giving up the lottery, as other villages have...
-
The Lottery
The first thing to do when faced with a question such as this, focusing on definitions and word origins, is to review the various definitions of the root word and decide which are relevant. I have...
-
The Lottery
"The Lottery" is told in the past tense, from a third-person omniscient point of view. This means that the narrator is not a participant in the story's action and does not use the first-person...
-
The Lottery
In "The Lottery," Tessie's final scream is both horrifying and ironic. After receiving the "winning" drawing that marks her as this year's sacrificial victim, she cries out that what is about to...
-
The Lottery
Mr. Warner is the oldest man in town, and the black box has been around even longer than he has (at least from "pieces of the box that had preceded it"). Thus, he comes to represent tradition and...
-
The Lottery
In terms of what time of year it is, we learn immediately that it is summertime, "June 27th" to be exact. It is a beautiful sunny day, and the flowers are in full bloom amidst the rich, green grass...
-
The Lottery
Shirley Jackson's underlying message of her celebrated short story "The Lottery" concerns the dangers of blindly following traditions. Jackson portrays the lottery as a senseless, violent ritual...
-
The Lottery
All of these literary techniques work to convey an image of a folksy, quaint, and disturbingly narrow backdrop for the action of the story. Characters in "The Lottery" are all townspeople in the...
-
The Lottery
"The Lottery" shows readers a shocking town tradition, and most readers are likely to focus on how the story points out issues with following tradition for the sake of tradition; however, a closer...
-
The Lottery
Throughout the story, the author often refers to "this village" or "the villagers," and the village can certainly be spoken of as a character in its own right. Indeed, the village is presented as...
-
The Lottery
The first two paragraphs of "The Lottery" describes the setting: a small village on a bright sunny day. School had just been let out for the summer, and the kids are playing, gathering rocks and...
-
The Lottery
In paragraph five, we learn that the "original paraphernalia" of the lottery was lost a long time ago. The black box now in use was built even before Old Man Warner, the oldest man in the village,...
-
The Lottery
Shirley Jackson, who was born in 1916, grew up in an early- and mid-twentieth-century United States far more dominated by small town life than is the case today. After she married, she and her...
-
The Lottery
In Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery," the nondescript town holds the lottery every June, and the entire community is required to participate in the annual ritual. During the lottery,...
-
The Lottery
The lottery itself symbolizes tradition. In this case, the townspeople continue having a lottery because that is what they have always done to ensure their continued way of life, though the direct...
-
The Lottery
When the story opens, Mr. Summers, the official of the lottery, begins the public preparations. The story’s narrator offers reminiscences and speculations that the villagers often discuss about the...
-
The Lottery
Tessie Hutchinson is the main character of Shirley Jackson's celebrated short story "The Lottery" and becomes the town's scapegoat after she chooses the slip of paper with the black spot on it....
-
The Lottery
“The Lottery,” a short story by Shirley Jackson which tells the tale of a small town that holds an annual lottery to decide which member of their community will be stoned to death. Part of the...
-
The Lottery
Tessie Hutchison is the protagonist of Shirley Jackson's celebrated short story "The Lottery" and challenges her conservative, traditionalist society by speaking out against the brutal ritual. The...
-
The Lottery
The irony of the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is that the original purpose of the lottery is never given. The reader learns that the lottery has been done “for generations” and is...
-
The Lottery
The short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson was first published in 1948. It is set in a very small village, and the villagers are getting ready for their annual “lottery,” which involves the...
-
The Lottery
"The Lottery" is set in a village of about three hundred people on an idyllic summer day. It is the morning of June 27th, and, though the year is not specified, the story was first published in...
-
The Lottery
One of the major themes of "The Lottery" is the stupidity and cruelty of blindly adhering to tradition for its own sake. All the villagers do this, but Old Man Warner is the most recalcitrant and...
-
The Lottery
With the exception of Tessie Hutchinson, the characters in Shirley Jackson's celebrated short story "The Lottery" are depicted as obedient conservatives who value tradition and structure. Jackson's...
-
The Lottery
The omniscient point of view is itself very important in helping to establish an air of normality in the story. As the story's told from the dispassionate standpoint of an all-seeing narrator not...
-
The Lottery
In Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," the reader sees an archaic and brutal tradition that is carried out each year in the village. While Jackson's opening descriptions make it seem as though the...
-
The Lottery
"The Lottery" makes the point that tradition alone is not a sufficient justification for an action. The story shows how uneasy the village residents are with their annual June lottery. For example,...
-
The Lottery
The setting of Shirley Jackson's celebrated short story takes place in a nondescript rural village on a beautiful summer day in late June. The day of the lottery is clear and sunny as the villagers...
-
The Lottery
The first stage of the lottery is the preparation of the wooden box and the slips of paper that go in it. It used to be chips of wood, but the population of the town grew to be too much for that....
-
The Lottery
"The Lottery" uses situational irony, which is when a situation or events turns out differently from what is expected. Jackson uses irony in this story to increase the shock value of the ending....
-
The Lottery
"The Lottery" starts out with an objective tone that makes the reader feel comfortable. The narrator recounts the beautiful first days of summer, the kids playing, and the town folk heading to the...
-
The Lottery
In Shirley Jackson's celebrated short story "The Lottery," the central external conflict is considered an individual versus society conflict. In Jackson's nondescript rural town, the community...
-
The Lottery
Foreshadowing gives us a clue as to what is to happen in a story, without actually giving away the plot. In the second paragraph of "The Lottery," we learn that one of the school children, Bobby...
-
The Lottery
In Shirley Jackson's celebrated short story "The Lottery," she depicts a small, nondescript community which subscribes to the outdated, violent tradition of the lottery. Each year, the community...
-
The Lottery
The setting of "The Lottery" is a small farming village in New England in which about three hundred people live. The town has been in existence for several hundred years. As the story open, it is...
-
The Lottery
The title to this great short story is misleading because of the connotation that most readers are likely to have about the word "lottery." Generally speaking, people enter lotteries in order to...
-
The Lottery
Throughout the short story, Jackson reminds readers that the lottery is not a new town event. One example is seen when the author explains, "The original paraphernalia for the lottery had been lost...
-
The Lottery
In Shirley Jackson's celebrated short story "The Lottery," the nondescript rural community blindly follows tradition by participating in the violent annual ritual, which results in the brutal death...
-
The Lottery
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson describes an annual ritual in which all villagers of a small town draw a slip of paper out of a box. One slip of paper has a black dot. The family of the villager...
-
The Lottery
The citizens fear the lottery but blindly follow the tradition by obediently taking part in the brutal ritual. At the beginning of the story, the community gathers in the town square, where they...
-
The Lottery
In Shirley Jackon's celebrated short story "The Lottery," Tessie Hutchinson becomes the village scapegoat when she draws the slip of paper with the black spot on it and is brutally stoned to death....
-
The Lottery
New scientific understanding and new technology are "good" in the context of this story by allowing agriculture to advance. In the mid-twentieth century world in which this short story takes place,...
-
The Lottery
Since your question of "Why is technology good now?" is listed under Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery," I will help to answer your question using the story as backdrop, focusing on:...
