“The Lottery”is a story by Shirley Jackson. It is about an victim who gets chosen and gets killed by society, by being stoned. “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson uses different types of conflict to strengthen the plot of the story .
This story shows the conflict of society or. person (enotes 1). Stoning was there method use for execution. Stoning is a way to viciously murder a victim by gathering groups of rocks or stone and throwing at them (Frequently...1). Mr.Summers follows rules and they have a system of a list of families. He tells them when to draw the slips of paper from the black box and when to open the papers. When someone is unable to draw the lottery rule determine who should be next in line. Mr Summers plays an important role in the lottery because he has a lot of power. He's married and has no children but has a nagging wife. He has complete control of the names of the day of lottery and makes up the paper that go in the box it's up to him to make the black circle that condemns a person to death (Jackson 1).
Mob Mentality refers to the fact that people will act in unison with the behaviors of the others around them because they identify with group in one way or another. (Homeworkhelp1) In the story Mob Mentality is when the village come together to do
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The internal conflict that Tessie Hutchinson only worried about herself and not her family. Tessie states “there's Don and Eva, Mrs. Hutchinson yelled, make them take their chance.” This shows she didn't care what happens to other people. The short story also includes an external conflict; where old man warner brags he can survive the lottery which he did all of’em, He says “seventy-seventh year I been in the lottery, old man warner said as he went through the crowd.” This also shows that he’s capable to survive another one. You can imagine what he must go through the worry every year of not knowing if this is his last year alive. This is internal conflict (Jackson