Symbols In The Lottery

On most occasions, an object can be more clearly explained to the reader if the writer uses a symbol to represent it. In “The Lottery” the characters and objects can be used as symbols. For example, Mr. Summers is just a character in the story but he represents life. He also represents setting. There's a setting in every story. Symbols are everywhere in the story, the villagers and their surroundings. For instance, The Three-Legged Stool represents Holy Trinity, to us it's just a stool but it's actually a religious view. Everything in the story symbolizes something else other than its self representation.
In this 1949 short story “The Lottery“ by Shirley Jackson, a village has a yearly lottery that takes place in the summer, the lottery lasts about two hours due to the amount of people that live in the village. At 10 o’clock every villager stops what they’re doing to head to the square. When Mr. Summers arrives he has with him the black box. Mr. Martin and his oldest son help set it, he then stirs the papers, so the villagers don't think it's a rigged lottery. The box they’re using is the first box they’ve ever used to have the lottery. It might have been falling apart but the villagers got offended when speaking of replacing the box for a new one. Once everything was ready and the families had picked their

“Rocks are ancient and remind one of a simpler, more basic time.” They’re considered tradition because they’ve always used stones to condemned. “The traditions that the people follow are barbaric in nature and have been around for a very long time.” The village wasn't advanced in any type of way, therefore the stones were their more advanced object “Stones are also significant as murder weapons because the first human tools were made of stone.” The stones were known as murderous weapons because it was a ritual to stone the lottery