Brief Summary Of The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

The Lottery, was published by the magazine The New Yorker, the story is written by Shirley Jackson. It was a clear warm sunny day on the 27 of June, it was also the day of the lottery. The farming village of about 300 people started gathering up at about 10:00 o'clock. The children met up and started collecting rocks as the parents of the children started gathering up in the town square. As they were meeting up Mr.Summers and Mr.Graves came with the black box. As they set up Mr.Summers put the slip with the black circle into the box. Then Mr.Summers started to call up the husbands to draw for their families. Then everyone opened their slips, a rumor went around that it was Hutchinsons, the rumor was true. Then Bill Hutchinson's wife Tessie yelled out “it wasn’t fair you didn’t give him enough time”. Mr.Summers said to Bill do you have the card, Bill said yes back and Mr.Summers said to Mr. Graves to get some cards and have the family draw. After they had drawn they opened their cards and found out that Tessie had it. Then Mr.Summers said to the

To start in the movie and book at the beginning the boys collected rocks and defended their piles while the girls talked quietly. This important because in both the movie and the book the people ran to those piles of rocks to use them to kill Tessie. Another reason is Mr.Adams tried to talk about quitting the lottery and was shut almost immediately by Mr.Warner who called him a fool. This is a big factor because if he had not said something people reading this and watching this would likely think everybody was fine with doing it and that would change what the people thought of it. The last reason is That Tessie fought and wined that it wasn’t fair and Bill didn’t have enough time and she got the same response from the crowd as in the book and movie. This important because this shows who her actual friends were because you're not a friend if you want to kill that