Tradition And Tradition In The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

The short story The Lottery was published in a magazine called The New Yorker. It was published in 1948. The author of this short story is Shirley Jackson. It was June 27th 10:00 a.m. a clear sunny morning and the townspeople were gathering for what they call the lottery. In this town or village there are about 300 people. Some of the children were gathering rocks or right next to their parents. The adults were talking and laughing just like it was a normal day. Then Mr. Summers comes with a black box with papers in it. Mr. Graves is carrying a stool to put the black box on. So here is how the lottery works the head of the household draws a paper and then when every family has drawn they look at their papers to see who has the paper with the

The main theme of the lottery is power of tradition. In this story they talk about how they have done the lottery for years. The oldest man in the town said he has been doing the lottery of “77 years”. It is very hard to break tradition. Tradition can change a little. For instance they once used to use bark instead of paper. Other towns have dropped the lottery but this town has kept it going because they fear that the crops won’t be good and the lottery all is they know of. Some of the people in the story like Mr. Adams wants to get rid if the lottery but some people don’t. When your parents have done it and their parents etc. You want to keep that going because it is all you know. Also even when you know something you are doing to wrong but it is still tradition. The stoning is something that is very wrong but they had be doing it for like forever. Another thing in this story that helps tell the theme is that in the story they give the Hutchinson children rocks. The children know it is wrong to throw rock but it is tradition even Mr. Hutchinson is throwing rocks and that is his wife. To sum up the power of tradition is very

One of the many similarities are that the events of the story were in the same order in both the movie and the short story. In the story and the movie the people all drew papers and the hutchinson family was the one that got the dot paper. It is important that authors kept them the same because it will tell the meaning of the story better and give an explanation on how the story is supposed to be. Another similarity is the that they use the same characters. Sometime movie they add or take out some of the characters and in this they used the same characters. If they would have choose to use different ones I would have changed the plot of the movie it is very important in this particular story. The third similarity is that they used the same quote “The lottery in june the corn be heavy soon. In the story if they didn’t have that quote the reader would have a hard time understanding what the article is about. The townspeople do the lottery because they think that the season will be a good