Foreshadowing In The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

Winning the lottery is such a happy moment in one’s life; it’s a feeling of excitement that on certain amount of money depending on the lottery they won. A lottery is a gambling game or process of raising money, for some public charitable ambition, in which a large number of tickets are sold and a drawings are held for certain prizes. In the story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, the exact opposite of excitement happened, it was more of sadness, they had the system of a traditional black box and one memory of every family was allowed to pick a lottery paper up. The narrative clues are the setting and specific details, the characters play a major role, foreshadowing, and suspense rising towards the end, the buildup of the outcome at the end

Mr. Summers is the man who does not have kids or a wife and he owns a coal company, he also has lots of time on his hands so he is the conductor of the lottery and the slips. As the author states: "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...people were sorry for him." (p. 291) People feel the sadness for him because of the thought of him living his life all alone no kids or a wife just his company and the conductor of the lottery. Mr. Graves is what we call the assistant for Mr. Summers, because he assists in the papers and the lottery ritual. Then there is Tessie Hutchinson, who's the unlucky lottery loser who tends to lose by getting the paper with the black mark which indicates loser, she was the one that repeatedly stating "it wasn't fair" (p. 294 ) Theirs also Old Man Warner, who has been "the oldest man in the village and has participated in the lottery for seventy seven years" (p. 294) as Jackson stated, he believe that young people have stopped holding lotteries because it keeps them from returning to their uncivilized duties. These people have a way of making the story seem more interesting then it would've

Jackson mentioned: ""It's Tessie," Mr. Summers said, and his voice was hushed.” Show us her paper. Bill." Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife and forced the slip of paper out of her hand. It had a black spot on it, the black spot Mr. Summers had made the night before with the heavy pencil in the coal company office. Bill Hutchinson held it up and there was a stir in the crowd" (p.296). When the crowd stopped and got silenced it was a moment of what will happen next, it was a moment filled with questions. The moment of nervousness, which made it seem as if something good may happen or maybe even something bad, the suspense was building up all the way until the dramatic outcome. As the author conveys: "The pile of stones the boys had made earlier was ready; there were stones on the ground with the blowing scraps of paper that had come out of the box Delacroix selected a stone so large she had to pick it up with both hands and turned to Mrs. Dunbar.”Come on," she said. "Hurry up” (P. 296). They all grabbed stones in their hands and Tessie was now in a center of space and she kept saying "it wasn't fair" (p.296) That's what had the audience on the edge of their seats. Then a stone hit Tessie in the head and everyone continued to throw stones at her. Jackson withholds the information as to why there were stones piled up and kids pockets filled with stones, until the very end which is why