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The Power Of Tradition In Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

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The Lottery is a short story ,published by Shirley Jackson, in a magazine called The New Yorker in 1948. The story takes place in a village with the population around 300 people. In the village the grass is green, clear and sunny, flower, rich grass, and a farming community. The community relies on The Lottery to bring them good crops. The Lottery is a old tradition the town does. Also speaking of The Lottery today in June 27th which is lottery day. It takes place in town square in the village by the bank and the post office. People are gathering. Kids are collecting rocks and putting it into a pile. The equipment is being brought out by Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves. The slips are being prepared. Mr. Summer’s puts a big black dot on one of the slips of papers. There is a slip of paper for each family. The family member that draws is usually the father/husband. But the one that is hurt or dead it might be the mother/wife. After a member of each family has a slip of paper they all open their papers at the same time. The person with the black dot has to take his family to Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves and then each family draws a piece of paper. The person with the black dot gets stoned to death. After the person gets stoned to death everyone goes back home and acts like …show more content…

They don’t want to change because they'll think they’ll have bad crops, and they rely on the crops for their income. If anyone objects to the tradition Old Man Warner will say something so that they will continue the tradition because he has been in The Lottery 77 times. Also if only one person objects to the tradition most likely they're not gonna get what they want because there is only gonna be one or two people against a lot more people than them. Some tradition need to come to an end. If they end this tradition it might be like everyone is gonna be so sad because of the thought that they killed someone. Some times some traditions should

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Shirley Jackson is known as one of the most brilliant and talented authors of the twentieth century. One of her most popular short stories is "The Lottery". " The Lottery" was published in the New York Yorker on June 28, 1948. This short story received a popular amount of attention from the readers.

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