Brief Summary Of The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

The Lottery
The summary of “The Lottery” begins describing a nice sunny summer day; People in this village began to prepare for the yearly lottery event. In preparation for the event people in the village gather around and men watching over the children discuss the weather, equipment, and taxes. Women soon come to join the men as they exchange gossip with other women of the village while children are busy gathering stones to fill their pockets and prepare for the lottery. “Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example, selecting the smoothest and roundest stones;” (p388), soon parents began to call the jubilant children to gather around as the lottery was set to begin. Running

Inside the black box papers with the names of the people in the village bustled around in their aged condition, “The black box grew shabbier each year; by now it was no longer completely black but splinted badly along one side to show the original wood color” (p389). Mr. Summers starts to move around papers inside the box as he mixes them for the trivial surprise, arriving just in the brink of time Mrs. Hutchinson allows Mr. Summers to proceed with calling out names. As names are called the chosen few are instructed to reach into the black box, pick a paper and keep it closed until all people of the village have had a turn. When everyone had a slip, Mr. Summers proceeded to call out names of the villagers and instructed them to open the paper and see who was hailed winner. The person who bared a black mark was crowned winner of the lottery, and winner of a tradition which says to stone the winner to death. The story ends portraying Mrs. Hutchinson as the unfortunate lottery winner; stones begin to hit her as she screams out comments of unfairness towards the lottery. As tradition would have it, even her son participates in throwing stones at his caregiver and loving mother.. “The Lottery” is a moral tale of a story in which humans mysteriously behave maliciously, this story tells of a barbaric tradition conducted yearly in this