Traditions In Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

This is about the short fictional story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, published in 1948. To begin with, the setting of the story was a warm day with green grass and flowers. The date was June 27th in a small village with about 300 people. The village depended on farming. Next, the conflict of the story was man vs society(traditions, rituals, sacrifices). Usually the head of the household would draw for their family. Then, you have to wait until every family has the a ticket. When everyone has a ticket, all the head of households’ open the ticket and whoever has the black mark on it then their family has to draw. All the people in your family draw except if your child has gotten married. The person that has the black dot on the ticket is the

Traditions are hard to change because people don’t think you should change them. The traditions that are in the village can harm villagers, but others believe that it is helping the crops grow is a reason why people don’t think it needs to stop. People who have been living in the village think that The Lottery should keep going while younger people want it to stop. The power of the people can effect the person that is the sacrifice. When people see others start stoning the person, then you are thinking that you have too. In this case, they give Tessie’s youngest son if given some pebbles. Sometimes you own family stone's you. If you don’t stone people than you think that everyone else is a murderer except you. When all the villagers stone people, they don’t focus on the death because they focus on the crops and having a good harvest. People don’t ask enough questions about this traditions. In summary, they don’t want to change this

First, the dialogue in the movie and story was very much the same. Some parts that were the same were Mr. Warner said “Lottery in June, Corn be heavy soon.” and when Tessie was protesting like “It isn’t fair, it isn’t right.” It was important to keep the dialogue the same because you wouldn’t get the same mood or feeling about the characters. Another similarity is characters in the story. They kept the same main characters like Mr. Summers, Mr. Graves, and Tessie. This was important because changing the characters would be like changing the story. Lastly, the tradition and how they did it was similar. It was similar because the same people were operating it and having all the head of households get the paper to wait and open it. It was important to keep it this way because they had changed the tradition a little bit then it would have made it seem either better or worse than it already was. To conclude, there were lots of