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The Lottery Silky Hutchinson Summary

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Tessie Hutchinson from the story "The Lottery" also faces something similar to Silky Bob in "After Twenty Years"Everyone in the village was getting ready for the yearly lottery. A man by the name of Mr. Summers went up to the podium and put down a box which contained the winners of the lottery. As Mr. Summers announced the winners, Bill Hutchinson's name was called. When his name was called people were saying that he "has it". Mrs. Hutchinson defends Bill by saying that he did not recieve enough time to pick a paper. Mr. Summers then asks if there are any other households in the Hutchinson family, to which Mr.Hutchinson replies no. Mr.Summers then asks a following question by asking how many kids does Mr.Hutchinson have, to which Bill replies
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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.

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confused. Although as you keep reading it becomes clear in the end that the individual that gets the paper with the black dot is stoned to death. In the story the “winner” of the lottery is Tess Hutchinson. When her ticket is revealed and eveyone sees the black dot they all back away and leave her in the center. They all get prepared passing stones around they even give some small rocks to her own son who is just a small child.

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Annotated Bibliography 1. Jackson The Lottery By: Yarmove, Jay A. Explicator. Summer94, Vol. 52 Issue 4, p242. 4p.

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Her attitude quickly shifts later in the story later she finds out her family is the winner she shouts "You didn't give him enough time to take any paper he wanted. I saw you! It wasn't fair" (Jackson 6). Mrs. Hutchinson feels

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In the story, "The Lottery," Tessie Hutchinson thinks that the lottery is unfair. The lottery took place on June 27 and was supposed to be every villager's main focus. However, Tessie Hutchinson not only forgot about the lottery, but was late to it, which was unusual. After the family heads draw a slip of paper and open them, Bill has "got it." Tessie immediately exclaims that "it wasn't fair!"

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The Lottery Template Topic Sentence: One can see by examining the symbolism of the worn out black box, and the foreshadowing of the children putting rocks in their pockets in the The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, that this story is a classic archetypal horror story. Argument: Firstly, one can see that when Mr. Summers arrived at the square carrying a black wooden box, he asked the villagers if anyone would give him a hand with putting the box on the three- legged stool, however, many hesitated to come near the black box, a symbolic twist that foreshadows the imminent ending. The black box has been used for generations, even before the oldest villager. It has been said that the current box was made from the pieces of the

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“The lottery” (1948) Analysis The short story, “The lottery” by Shirley Jackson takes place in a small village. Was conducted the lottery story in 1948. In this story, the lottery is a yearly tradition that takes place in a small American Town.

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The Lottery Analytical Essay In this short story, written by Shirley Jackson, the townspeople have somewhat of violent “tradition”. The people participate in this process called stoning where someone is randomly beaten to death by stones. Shirley doesn't specifically say why they do this or why it is still happening but she does drop hints.

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“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.

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“The Lottery” is an realism/horror story written by Shirley Jackson. The story is about some villagers of a small New England town who follow the tradition of making a lottery every year. When it comes, they like to celebrate it with the correct rules and the correct objects so they can feel more comfortable. Everyone need to take a slip of paper from a small black box, and the paper with a black dot in it means that the family is the winner, then they raffle again; Bill Hutchinson, who was the husband of the protagonist Tessie Hutchinson picked a paper with a black dot in it, that meant that Tessie was the winner of the lottery, then she starts complaining because the drawing was not conducted properly. At the end, the townspeople moved off to a cleared spot outside the town and they begin stoning her to death (Jackson).

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“The Lottery" is a verdict of depraved tradition of a community. The story surrounds a town where the lottery is drawn every year as a sacrifice ritual one 's life for a good fertile crop. The lottery rose up public opinions when it first published in 1948. It is a piece of Shirley Jackson in which she wrote about inhumanity and violence among human based on her real experience when she moved to a small town and was rejected by its people. Shirley Jackson always believed in sinful spirit within each individual self as her writing style portrayed the vicious side of her and people 's souls, “The dark current of awareness of evil that runs through her life and work seems too strong to have as its sole root the observance of suburban hypocrisy” (Judy Oppenhaimer).

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The concept of good vs evil has been used through the history of literature and is a theme presented in literature throughout time. Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson are both short stories that eloquently present this theme of good vs evil and how they coexist within a community. Goodman Brown Details the story of Goodman Brown and his peculiar adventures while traveling in the deep woods, while The Lottery details the story of a lottery that is played in a small community of 300 people where the winner is killed. Both of these stories are also clear examples of how social customs are forcibly done in a community no matter how harsh or evil they may seem to others. Because of these set traditions being

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Many people feel they are being persuaded into doing acts that they don’t want to, or having judgments that they don’t believe in, all because people are used to doing what they see others do. In Chris Abani’s short story The Lottery, he was only a 10 year old boy when he got pressured into seeing a man burn and had to also spit on him. Langston Hughes was also a young boy in Salvation, when he had to lie in church, about being saved by Jesus. In the short piece Why Are Beggars Despised? George Orwell does not see a difference in beggars who live on the streets and working people.

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“The Lottery”, a short story by Shirley Jackson, is about a lottery that takes place in a small village. The story starts off with the whole town gathering in the town square, where Mr. Summers holds the lottery. Once everyone gathers, every family draws a slip of paper out of an old black box, and the family with the black mark on their paper gets picked. After that, each family member older than 3 years of age re-draws a slip of paper again and this time, the person with the black mark on their paper gets picked as the “lucky winner” of the lottery. In this short story, after the Hutchinson family gets drawn, Tessie Hutchinson is declared “winner” of the lottery, with her reward is being stoned to death.

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Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is an account of a tradition gone awry. In this short story the villagers of this town have a tradition where they have a “lottery” to see who gets stoned to death. The characterization and symbolism used in the story makes the reader feel as if society has crumbled with the inhumane tradition that ultimately lost its meaning. Throughout the story, Jackson uses characterization and symbolism to imply a message to society about the meaning of tradition. Through the use of characterization and symbolism Jackson establishes that blindly following traditions can be hazardous

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