Tessie Hutchinson should not have been stoned to death in The Lottery. She was completely innocent of any crime that we know of, had a family that she was taking care of, and seemed to be one of the only voices of reason in the village. When she is introduced, she is portrayed as a funny wife. She forgot that it was June 27th because she was taking care of the house for her family. She called out that the lottery system wasn’t fair, they even said that every year it gets faster and faster.
In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, the author elaborates on the harshness of the Holocaust and he takes us through his journey as a young adult while experiencing all the barbaric ways of the Nazis. As Elie goes on his voyage he has thoughts on whether or not he has lost his “human ways” Ellie did keep his humanity intact because he kept pushing his father to persevere through the rough times of the Holocaust and Elie still showed remorse even in the end. First off, when certain people have advantages that benefit them only they take ahold of them. In the book, Ellie never thought of himself. Although his father was weak, Eliezer woke him from a deep sleep when he rested on the train to keep Chlomo from being thrown off.
It is seen in the story that Tessie shows resentment towards the lottery once her own life is in danger,
In Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," two characters stand out amidst the unsettling ritual: Tessie Hutchinson and Old Man Warner. Tessie, initially portrayed as a typical villager, transforms when her family is chosen for the sacrificial stoning. She embodies resistance against blind tradition, challenging the lottery's cruelty and unfairness. Her outcry, "It isn't fair, it isn't right," epitomises defiance against the town's ingrained customs, highlighting the dangers of conformity. On the other hand, Old Man Warner represents staunch adherence to tradition.
This proves it because, when she thought it wasn’t fair, it was husband got picked. However some other people feel different about “The Lottery”. Old Man Warner however, agrees with “The Lottery”. Old Man Warner agreed with “The Lottery” because he’s been in “The Lottery” for 7 years and still didn’t get the black dot on his paper.
Her prize is that she is stoned to death. This lottery happens because the town doesn’t want to upset the tradition. The text states, “ ‘Well, now,’ Mr. Summers said soberly, ‘guess we better get started, get this over with so’s we can go back to work. (p. 19, lines 169-171).’ ”
This is significant because it shows how loss can affect some people and influence their actions. Tessie is so against losing that it makes her have bad sportsmanship, leading her to hurt herself a little and attempt to hurt others to save herself. Tessie was willing to have her children get hurt just so she doesn’t have to, when instead she should be doing the opposite, and trying to get her kids out of that situation like any caring mother would. However, Tessie let her poor sportsmanship get in the way, leading her to embarrass herself and try to hurt her children instead of protecting them. At the end of “The Lottery”, Shirley Jackson develops the theme that poor sportsmanship can cause those who lose to hurt themselves or others in the scene where after it was discovered that Bill had the marked paper, the box was emptied and refilled with enough papers for his family including one marked paper.
Have you read the lottery? They have to get together every year for a drawing. I will be telling you about how people feel about the lottery. They all have to get to go to the lottery, it’s in the summer and its some don’t want to the tradition to end. Why do they even do the tradition?
“The Lottery” is a short story by Shirley Jackson. The story commences with a vivid description of the summer day in the town, giving us the idea that the day will be good. When the lottery begins, families begin to draw slips of paper from the black box. Finally, when Bill Hutchinson withdrew the slip of paper with the black dot, his wife Tessie starts yelling that it wasn 't fair. When the second drawing was held only among the Hutchinson’s family, Tessie gets the same piece of paper with the dot and is stoned to death.
In “The Lottery”, Shirley Jackson uses characterization, symbolism and themes to develop the action of the short story. First of all, one of the literary devices is characterization, Characterization in
So then Tessie starts to complain that the drawing was not set up properly (Jackson). In “The Lottery,” Shirley Jackson uses the symbolism, characterization, and theme to develop this short story. The symbolism of
He has lived through the tradition for decades and is set in his ways with how he views the lottery. Jackson made this character completely “for” the lottery, anyone who thought that the lottery should be stopped, was considered a young fool who knew nothing, and had no respect for tradition. Shirley used techniques that gave life to her short story, thus having readers become compelled to read her short stories. The tasteful blend of reality produced; a sense of brooding mystery and
“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.
and she was stoned and killed. A theme throughout the story is few people from the town think that the lottery is bad and wants to quit. Therefore they have fear for change of tradition because they don’t want to admit that it’s wrong. For example MR. Adams told old man Warner that they were quitting the lottery in other places but old man warner disagrees.
She realizes that this is an unpleasurable and outdated tradition and should be forgotten only because she got chosen. However, if her family’s name wasn’t drawn, she would have blindly followed the ritual, thrilled to have escaped a gruesome, sacrificial death. As a reader it is easy to empathize for Tessie since she or others don’t have a voice in their community or are even able to look at the bigger picture and see that the lottery is unnecessary. Not only does the dramatic irony of the lottery allow the reader to understand Tessie’s view, it creates a similar feeling towards Bill Hutchinson. For example, “Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife and forced the slip of paper out of her hand.
