How Does Shirley Jackson Follow Tradition

“The Lottery” is a Story written by Shirley Jackson in 1948. This is a story about a small town where they have a lottery each year on the same day to decide who will be pick to be stoned by picking papers out of a black box until a household head has the doted paper. People in this town never bothering to think if it even makes since to continue this tradition, belief, or custom. This story shows how some people resist change and other follow it blindly weather it benefits them or not. Over all this story is Shirley Jackson is try to teach the fear of change and how society follows tradition, customs, and beliefs just because it always been that way.

In this story one of the first thigs you see are the kids making a great pile of stones

In the lotter Mr. Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was present by the black box. Furthermore it also quoted in the story that the original paraphernalia for the lotter had been lost long ago. The current black box was put into to use even before Mr. Warner the oldest man in town was born, it was made from pieces of the box that proceed it. The original paraphernalia for the lotter was lost and the box has no true origin accept being built for last one but it’s so precious. This is an example that people will follow what has always been there without thinking twice. The author is try to explain that people will follow what has always been around similar to the army and the way we supposed to greet the Command Sargent Major first think in the morning I think it make no since if he doesn’t speak to me why should I speak but it always been there so I follow

Adams told the old man who stood next to him that over in the northern village they talked of giving up the lottery. Quoted in The Lottery Old Man Warner snorted. "Pack of crazy fools," he said. "Listening to the young folks, nothing's good enough for them. Next thing you know, they'll be wanting to go back to living in caves, nobody work anymore, live that way for a while. Used to be a saying about 'Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.' First thing you know, we'd all be eating stewed chickweed and acorns. There's always been a lottery," he added petulantly. "Bad enough to see young Joe Summers up there joking with everybody.’’ In this section the author teaches that people will resist change and old people will have a hard time adapting to change and some will never accept it. like how technology has made our would a better place for example the computer/lab top replaced rooms full of filing cabinets and encyclopedia but older people refuse to adapt. My mom refuses to learn to work one she come to me to do anything she has to do on the lab top from scheduling an appointment to check her email, it’s a crutch because the world is going digital without knowledge of how to work an computer she handicap.

Quoted in the Lottery because so much of the rituals had been forgotten or discarded, that Mr. Summers had been successful in having slips of paper substituted for the chips of wood that had been used for generations. another ritual was the salute, which official