The Lottery Title Analysis
The Lottery: Don’t Let the Title Fool You.
Congratulations! Tess Hutchinson has won the lottery. Or so the title lets the audience think that. “The Lottery” is a short story written by Shirley Jackson in 1948. It is based in a small town that has an annual “lottery winner”. “The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o'clock” (1). Each town member will go collect a piece of paper. Then, that family, the Hutchinson's, will proceed and see who surely conquers the lottery. That person just so happened to be Tess Hutchinson, who ends up being stoned to death. Some lottery win huh? Many people in the world wish to win the lottery, but then again who would not? It can be life changing. The Hutchinson’s think otherwise, that it is unfair, foolish even. Is the lottery truly as good as it sounds? Looks can be deceiving, and this town finds this out.
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Even though something sounds good, it may turn out to be the worst possible thing that happens in an individuals’ life. Folks have the opportunity to take risks every day, but should they just throw themselves at something they know not a thing about? It does not truly matter. People will do what they want to do; it’s their life. Let them live it how they please. This is a problem in today’s society. Commoners should not just throw it all away at every opportunity they come across. Society should think more about things before acting. Even if it is a tradition to those of the town whom want to keep the tradition thriving. For example, like the characters in “The Lottery,” they just curiously gather around a black box every year that they know little about hoping it contains something that will benefit them. It did not benefit anyone. Then again it could have, because of Tess, no one else had to die. The village becomes so blind by the customary that they fail to see its true meaning,
Congratulations! Tess Hutchinson has won the lottery. Or so the title lets the audience think that. “The Lottery” is a short story written by Shirley Jackson in 1948. It is based in a small town that has an annual “lottery winner”. “The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o'clock” (1). Each town member will go collect a piece of paper. Then, that family, the Hutchinson's, will proceed and see who surely conquers the lottery. That person just so happened to be Tess Hutchinson, who ends up being stoned to death. Some lottery win huh? Many people in the world wish to win the lottery, but then again who would not? It can be life changing. The Hutchinson’s think otherwise, that it is unfair, foolish even. Is the lottery truly as good as it sounds? Looks can be deceiving, and this town finds this out.
As a reader, this short story is …show more content…
Even though something sounds good, it may turn out to be the worst possible thing that happens in an individuals’ life. Folks have the opportunity to take risks every day, but should they just throw themselves at something they know not a thing about? It does not truly matter. People will do what they want to do; it’s their life. Let them live it how they please. This is a problem in today’s society. Commoners should not just throw it all away at every opportunity they come across. Society should think more about things before acting. Even if it is a tradition to those of the town whom want to keep the tradition thriving. For example, like the characters in “The Lottery,” they just curiously gather around a black box every year that they know little about hoping it contains something that will benefit them. It did not benefit anyone. Then again it could have, because of Tess, no one else had to die. The village becomes so blind by the customary that they fail to see its true meaning,