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Parody In Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

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The morning of May 1st was a beautiful and clear sunny day. The dogs were being let outside in the freshly grown green grass and the cat doors to the outside area were opened. The cats ventured out to their fenced in outdoor area, lazily spreading themselves out in the morning light to sun bathe. The veterinarians were beginning to gather – there were three of them at this shelter – punching in for their shifts and the veterinary technicians were already starting on exams of dogs yet to be admitted into the animal shelter. There were only about ten of them waiting in the spacious quarantine kennels so the morning check-ins only took about an hour, so the technicians could begin at 11 o’clock in the morning and be finished in enough time to …show more content…

I used the same point of view, character development with Miss Doe, supernatural element, plot, foreshadowing and irony to bring my parody together. I wanted to make sure that the point of view was seemingly all knowing so that the reader can get a good idea of what each character was seeing and doing, but not know what was going to happen. Foreshadowing is very subtle in “The Lottery” and I am hoping I achieved that in mine as well so the ending was not ruined. Irony plays a fair part in the original story also and I want to come up with a title that will have the same ironic sound to it as “The Lottery” does. The theme is the most important part as I wanted there to be a strong ending message in my story like there was in …show more content…

It handles a sensitive topic that many people may not think about day to day, just like people may not think about all of the homeless animals that are getting euthanized every day because people are not responsible pet owners. I believe it compliments it, without criticizing it too much. I do not go against Jackson’s original idea, I stick with wanting to get a message out which I believe it what her story was intended to do. It follows a similar structure that does not challenge it, but rather collaborates it and compliments it on the story’s creative way to portray and important

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In the story a few major themes are brushed upon .It talks about and gives a small example of anxiety ,abuse of various different kinds, suicide, immigration, feminism,sexuality, and a few minor topics like relationships,confidence, courage and struggles of regular life. The effect may not be great as it was mentioned earlier, it wasn't talked about in much detail, but it was put out there and made aware. It appealed to me in both an emotional and logical way. I myself suffer from some of these things and found it quite refreshing that someone feels and thinks the same way, real or

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In the short story, "The Lottery," by Shirley Jackson, the central idea is that sometimes, even though things may not be fair, we still have to do whatever that is. In the text the author writes, "'It isn't fair, it isn't right,' Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her"(Jackson 34, lines 328-329). It appears they Mrs. Hutchinson doesn't think what about to happen to her is fair, but it happens anyway, against her beliefs. In the short story, Jackson sets a certain mood, by using irony and pacing the text, helping to develop the central idea.

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The Danger of Tradition Traditionally many ancient societies would kill their people to sacrifice to God in order to obtain rain or a good harvest. These mindlessly, followed traditions were never critically thought about and therefore citizens died year after year. A similar tragedy occurs in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”. This story features a civilization much like our own but with one small difference, the town’s people hold a lottery every year and the town stones who ever loses to death.

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Equally important, Jackson purposefully inserts incongruities within “The Lottery,” via means of irony, allowing the authors audience many opportunities to examine the true meaning of her words as the story’s events unfold. As one reflects on the title of Jackson’s story, a true sense of irony is revealed as the general population thinks of a lottery as something phenomenal and appealing, as opposed to the lottery in the author’s story which is atrocious and dreadful. Jackson describes a utopian village as she employs imagery to write the story’s setting of a “clear and sunny [day], with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green,” which ironically turns out a dystopia (250).

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Imagine a society where killing somebody for the sake of a tradition is acceptable. In the short story “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson describes an ordinary village with normal people, but as the story progress the details of their yearly practice known as “the lottery” unravels to be more disturbing. The author subverts the readers’ expiations by persuading the reader into assuming “the lottery” is a ordinary tradition until unusual details and the behavior of the characters come into place. In her short story “The Lottery,” Jackson seemingly uses ordinary details about the setting and the townspeople to characterize her theme that although society claims to be civilized, and may appear so, it is inherently barbaric.

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The short story “The Lottery” written by Shirley Jackson, the plot in the story that it only gives people an account of drawing lots to determine the winner who shall be stoned to death for harvest. However, we get a deep impression of the characters and their fate after reading the story. Jackson indicated a prevalent theme, the indirect of characterization and using symbolism and irony to modify this horror story. The Allegorical story of “ The Lottery” is often regarded as a satire of human behavior and social institutions, and exemplifies some of the central themes of Jackson’s fiction, including the victimization of the individual by society, the tendency of people to be cruel, and the presence of evil in everyday life.

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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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The story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a short story of horror and realism. On June 27th on a late summer morning, the villagers of a small New England village gatherd together in the town square to conduct their annual lottery. There is a black box on a stool and in the box there is pieces of paper in the box. Each person from a family get one paper from the black box even the children get a piece of paper and every stayed quiet and nervouse. Then Bill Hutchinson looked at the paper and notice that he got the black dot.

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The story could have been more interesting. Jackson’s character could have been presented in a way that made me sympathetic for him; instead he blamed his circumstances rather than taking responsibility for himself and his actions. The homelessness was not all his fault, but we never heard what happened- only that it was the government’s fault and he should have had more opportunity.

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“The Lottery”, by Shirley Jackson is a very suspenseful, yet very shocking short story. This story is set in a small village, on a hot summers day in June. Flowers are blooming, and the towns people are gathering for the lottery, which is a tradition the town does every year. As the reader reads the first paragraph they think this is a happy story. The title also says, “The Lottery” which is a word often used for winning something or receiving a prize.

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In “The Lottery,” Shirley Jackson uses foreshadowing when the children are collecting stones from the river and putting them into piles. It hints that something bad is going to happen because it is unusual for boys to be grabbing stones and randomly put them into a pile. For example, while the towns people were getting ready for the lottery the narrator states, “Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example,selecting the smoothest and roundest stones; Bobby and Harry Jones and Dickie Delacroix, eventually made a great pile of stones in one corner of the square and guarded it against the raids of the other boys.” (Jackson). This quotation shows that the boys in the village are finding the smoothest and roundest stones and putting them into a big pile.

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In Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," the author has demonstrated each symbol and the meaning that holds behind them. The black box is culturally known as a dark and evil color. It represents the fate of the people in town, and the three-legged stool is used as a support for the black box to lay on top of the object. Stoning is ancient.

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“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson It creates a sense of suspense and shock to everyone who reads it and is considered an all time great. In her story she develops this suspense by the use of irony, imagery, and foreshadowing to develop her theme. One device that Shirley uses in her story is the use of irony.

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By incorporating dramatic irony into “The Lottery,” Shirley Jackson is able to convey a sense of understanding and compassion towards the character. This first instance of dramatic irony is where Tessie is pleading to the town’s people that they were unfair to her husband. “People began to look around to see the Hutchinsons. Bill Hutchinson was standing quiet, staring down at the paper in his hand. Suddenly.

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The Lottery The short story, The Lottery by Shirley Jackson proposes an annual lottery drawing in a little village set in New England. However, unlike any usual lottery, the winner is stoned to death by their fellow townsmen, women and children included. The lottery seems to have been a custom around the area for over seventy years.

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