Suspense In Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

The element of suspense What is suspense ? a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen . Suspense interests the reader / viewer . Suspense makes you think what is going to happen . Suspense will have you wanting to know more of what is going to happen . suspense makes you bite your nails and shake with excitement , suspense is a great feeling to have . The Lottery by Shirley Jackson ties in with suspense . The beginning of the story makes you want to find out what happens in the end. The story starts with kids playing with rocks but you would not suspect that they were going to throw them at the lottery winner. An elderly man comes with a black box , you draw a piece of paper and if on that paper is big black dot , you have won the lottery . When you hear the word lottery you automatically think of money but in this story , it is far from receiving money . All Summer In A Day by Ray Bradbury also ties in with suspense . The beginning starts out suspicious and kind of creepy . The story is interesting enough for you to want to watch till the end . Margot was born on earth but winded up on the planet Venus . Venus has never received sun , it is always raining and cloudy . The only time the kids saw the sun was in a picture , not with their own eyes.

Mrs,Wright's husband dies and Mrs.Wright act nonchalant about the whole situation . She did not shed a tear, act sad or anything . She stayed doing her daily routine as if nothing had happened. Sheriff Peters, Lewis Hale, his wife Martha and Henderson came and investigated her house because of her behavior about the death was suspicious . Mrs.Wright went to jail as a suspect , while she was in jail the sheriff's wife and Mrs.Hale did their own investigation . They find a dead bird but instead of telling the sheriff the hide the bird which makes you think on why they hid the bird instead of