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Brief Summary Of The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

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The Lottery The Lottery is basically around a fictional town of about three hundred people. In this alternate world towns have something they like to call the Lottery. The Lottery is a disgusting tradition, these people have grown up with. Before I just give away the lottery and ruin this whole summary I am going to start from the beginning of the story. It was June 27th a summer day. The town was getting ready for the big day the lottery. The children were talking about school being out playing, laughing getting ready for the big event! The adults were discussing their future plans. Children were playing with a pile of stones sitting right next to the event. Mr. Summers came around with a black box a little late for the event. This black box …show more content…

This box carried white papers and one paper had a creepy black dot. The person that got that is the “win.” A woman called Mrs. Hutchinson came just in time before Mr. Summers started. Right off the bat you can see how the town reacts to change! A woman had to draw for her husband because he couldn't make it. Mr.Summers allowed it, but the original rules were the man of the house must draw. Mr. Summers calls the last names of every family. Mr. Warner the oldest man in town talks about how we need to stick with tradition and the town has already changed much. The families stand waiting impatiently to find out if they “won.” I personally would be freaking out about the lottery when I tell you what happens next! A man is called named Bill! Mrs. Hutchinson his wife starts shouting, saying he didn’t have enough time to choice. Just by the way the author wrote this I can see the terror in her eyes on what's going to happen next. She convinces Mr.Summers to have her whole family redraw giving Bill more time to draw as well as evening all the family members the opportunity to win! They all draw. Mrs. Hutchinson gets the black dot. The town prepares to give her her winning prize! They begin to pick up stones from the pile as Mrs. Hutchinson was in clear

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Even though Mrs. Hutchinson argued back, she had no choice but to draw a slip out from the black box with her three kids. After each family member had a slip of paper on their hand, they opened it to revealed a blank paper. The three kids were safe and so was Mr. Hutchison except for Mrs. Hutchinson. On her slip was a black dot and everyone in the crowd knew what to do as they gathered small pebbles and rocks from the ground as they move toward Mrs. Hutchinson while she screamed about the unfairness of this lottery.

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Which every family has the piece of paper with the black dot on it must redraw from the box and who ever then gets the dot will “win” the lottery and get stoned. In order to cause suspense in the story Shirley Jackson uses foreshadowing, irony, and symbolism. At the beginning of the story there is many spots were foreshadowing is used. One place would be when the villagers start to go to the town square to begin.

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As they set up Mr.Summers put the slip with the black circle into the box. Then Mr.Summers started to call up the husbands to draw for their families. Then everyone opened their slips, a rumor went around that it was Hutchinsons, the rumor was true. Then Bill Hutchinson's wife Tessie yelled out “it wasn’t fair you didn’t give him enough time”. Mr.Summers said to Bill do you have the card, Bill said yes back and Mr.Summers said to Mr. Graves to get some cards and have the family draw.

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The Lottery Template Topic Sentence: One can see by examining the symbolism of the worn out black box, and the foreshadowing of the children putting rocks in their pockets in the The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, that this story is a classic archetypal horror story. Argument: Firstly, one can see that when Mr. Summers arrived at the square carrying a black wooden box, he asked the villagers if anyone would give him a hand with putting the box on the three- legged stool, however, many hesitated to come near the black box, a symbolic twist that foreshadows the imminent ending. The black box has been used for generations, even before the oldest villager. It has been said that the current box was made from the pieces of the

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Now that Mrs. Hutchinson has arrived, Mr. Summers ask if anyone is not present and everyone quickly realized that Mr. Dunbar is not there and is home with a broken leg but since Mr. Dunbar does not have a son that is old enough to take over, so his wife had to take his spot. Now the lottery can finally start and Mr. Summers starts to go over the rules of the lottery with the villagers. Mr. Summers start calling people up one by one to pick a slip, now everyone has open their slips and people assumed that Bill Hutchinson has the defective slip but Mrs. Hutchinson argued that it was not fair due to the fact that bill did not have enough to pick his paper. Mr. Summers has no choice but to move on with the process, so Mr. Graves empty out the box and put a piece of paper for everyone in the Hutchinson’s family which was five

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One of the pieces of paper has a black dot on it, and the family that receives the black dot has to draw again, this time facing the possibility of death. In the story, Bill Hutchinson has the black dot, and his wife starts screaming about how unfair it is. She starts yelling about how it’s rigged, and how Bill didn’t get to pick the piece of paper he wanted. Her neighbors started yelling at her to shut up, and telling her to be a good sport.

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“The Lottery” is a short story by Shirley Jackson. The story commences with a vivid description of the summer day in the town, giving us the idea that the day will be good. When the lottery begins, families begin to draw slips of paper from the black box. Finally, when Bill Hutchinson withdrew the slip of paper with the black dot, his wife Tessie starts yelling that it wasn 't fair. When the second drawing was held only among the Hutchinson’s family, Tessie gets the same piece of paper with the dot and is stoned to death.

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“The Lottery” is an realism/horror story written by Shirley Jackson. The story is about some villagers of a small New England town who follow the tradition of making a lottery every year. When it comes, they like to celebrate it with the correct rules and the correct objects so they can feel more comfortable. Everyone need to take a slip of paper from a small black box, and the paper with a black dot in it means that the family is the winner, then they raffle again; Bill Hutchinson, who was the husband of the protagonist Tessie Hutchinson picked a paper with a black dot in it, that meant that Tessie was the winner of the lottery, then she starts complaining because the drawing was not conducted properly. At the end, the townspeople moved off to a cleared spot outside the town and they begin stoning her to death (Jackson).

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Coldly seizing the paper to reveal that she possessed the marked ticket indicates a lack of empathy, not of a friend and a spouse, but as a participant removed from any loyalty to family, instead loyal to the lottery tradition. By holding the slip of paper Mrs. Hutchinson had drawn, Mr. Hutchinson seals his wife’s fate knowing full well what will come next. Mr. Hutchinson had made the choice to essentially betray his

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Tessie has the paper with the dot. Once again Tessie argues that the lottery isn’t fair. Everyone slowly steps away from Tessie. People pick up the stones and pebbles and get closer to Tessie. They all start to throw the rocks at her as Tessie is screaming.

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However, it is quite opposite of what the story portrays. What the reader does not see from the beginning of the story and does not capture until midway through, is that the lottery is actually something awful. When the lottery processions proceed the story starts to develop a more serious and somber mood. The townspeople show no remorse or empathy for one another and friendships slowly diminish. This is especially true when they know they will soon have to stone to death the villager who has drawn the marked paper; for instance, when Mrs. Delacroix picks up the biggest rock to bludgeon to death, the winner, Mrs. Hutchinson.

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