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Personal Experiences In Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

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“Poison” F2 One of my first memorable encounters with a snake was about seven years ago, when I still ordered off of the kids menu ant restaurants. It was a breezy fall day when the leaves had just started to change and fall off of the trees and my dad and I were raking them up in the side yard. At some point, we abandoned our work and began playing with the dog in the large pile of orange and yellow. Our dog, Beans, loved playing hide and seek. We both wondered where he had run off to, we began searching for him all over the property and calling for him simultaneously. When we were least expecting it, Beans start barking, the dog was crouched at the front of the gate attempting to get to something. When we finally managed to pyre him away from the …show more content…

The lottery is a fair way of choosing who to be stoned to death by fellow citizen primarily one of the main characters feels the horror of this brutal act: the so-called “winner” of the lottery, Tessie Hutchinson. This causes Tessie to change her standpoint and view of the lottery. Tessie finds herself in an inescapable predicament. Tessie rapidly shifts through these stages: denial, anger, bargaining, and depression. The first mindset she experiences is denial. For her, this happens before being designated as the “winner.” As the story begins, the entire town has already met in the town center; except for Tessie. Tessie has forgotten it is lottery day and hurries to meet up with everyone. She seems to deny to herself that the lottery exists, and she certainly won’t be. she states to Mr. Summers her excuse for being late: “Wouldn’t have me leave m’dishes in the sink, now, would you, Joe?” She implies with humor that if she were the one chosen, she could not leave her family with a messy home. But, in truth, she clearly does not believe she could be

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