The Lottery” is a short story written by Shirley Jackson. This is a story about a village with a massive amount of people that holds a traditional event once a year to control the population. Stoning the person who picked the paper with the black dot on it is one method used by the village. The chosen one was Tessie Hutchinson who thought it wasn’t fair. In this short story, Shirley Jackson uses symbolism and themes that are being used to make the story more interesting and enjoyable. Symbolism can be a person, place or thing that symbolizes something. For example, the black dot on the paper means death in the story. Whoever was the one to draw the paper with the black dot was the one to get stoned. The person who chose the paper with …show more content…
They would kill innocent people just because they would think having about three hundred people in a village was too many people. Also, this story has plenty of themes and symbols that makes whoever reads this story want to think twice about who they hang out with. If you ever want to follow a crowd, before you become a follower know who the people really are, and what they do before you get yourself into trouble. Just because you want to be “cool” and follow a crowd to get a few seconds of fame doesn’t make you cool because if you get into trouble, depending how much trouble you get in, it will stay with you and it can even be put on your record forever. Even if something is a tradition you always need to know what the consequences are before proceeding. The Lottery is a story that teaches you a lesson about life back in the old days. This story should be recommended to be read by every high school student because it teaches you about history and teaches you a lesson about life. I think this story was made to teach us about the past about how they would betray women and how they’d stone people to death. Yeah it’s not right to be betraying women and stoning people, but that’s all the past. Back then they’d live a different life, everything was cheaper, but then again there was a lot of poor people because only men would work and women would stay home to cook, clean, and take care of their children. If they had a sequel, they’d stop doing the lottery because there is no point in having to stone an innocent person who hasn’t done anything wrong. If I were to live in the village where they did the lottery, I’d leave to another town or village where they didn’t do the lottery, because I wouldn’t want to be risking my life. I think that would be a very long painful