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Thesis For The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

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The Lottery An American writer Shirley Mardie Jackson, known primarily for her works of horror and mystery and she also composed six novels, two memoirs and 200 short stories, especially, The Lottery. This short story published in the New York, on June 26,1948. In this story describes a fictional small American community which observes an annual tradition called “The Lottery”. There was a village, gathered together to start sacrificial tradition of their society. There will be a chosen person to death, stones were thrown by each of the villagers, until the chosen die. This started and takes place in the story, at 27th of June were the villagers prepare for two days starts in 26th of June. In the village, they just think of it as a normal day, in three hundred villagers each of them will pile stones in to the lottery specially to those young children. Once have done, and families and every part of the village(villagers) gather together. This was led by Mr. Summers bringing an old box and there are folded papers within. Each family representative have to get only one paper from the inside of the black box. And only one paper have black mark and that will suppose the chosen family member shall draw folded member picked up the paper that has black mark, the chosen one to death, in the lottery. …show more content…

Summers started calling family names and each family drawn paper. (Family names are Allen, Anderson, Bentham, Delacroix, Clark, Summers, Harburt, Hutchinson, Jones, Adams Martin, Overdyke, Graves, Dunbar, Warner, Watson, Janini, etc.). Bill Hutchinson had the marked paper, and Mrs. Hutchinson, Tessie insist that it wasn’t fair, it’s unfair that Mr. Summers didn’t give some time for Bill to draw a paper inside the black

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