Preview

Chapter Summary: The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
488 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Chapter Summary: The Lottery By Shirley Jackson
“The Lottery” 1.The dark ending was not a typically lottery but throughout the story methods of foreshadowing was used by the author, Shirley Jackson. Characters throughout the story fear the lottery nervously but the dark suspicions are confirmed when “Tessie Hutchinson shouted to Mr. Summers. "You didn't give him time enough to take any paper he wanted. I saw you. It wasn't fair!"”(Jackson 5). Tessie instead of being excited for winning the lottery is extremely against winning which confirms that the lottery is nothing to be excited about. Jackson begins the story picturing the town as a the children were playing around as if nothing horrible was about to happen.

2.The setting is a simple small village during the summer time. Summer is typically full of life with plants and flowering typically seen during the season. The ending does not fit the setting as typically small villages grow bonds with their neighbors and not stone their neighbor to death due to losing the lottery. The season full of life brings joy to the time of place the lottery takes place but ends up with the opposite of life, death.
…show more content…
The characters at the end once the tension is over all act as one and begin to stone Tessie Hutchinson. Tessie Hutchinson was singled out as the winner as she challenged the tradition that has been going on for quite some time as Old Man Warner has been in the lottery seventy seven times. Tessie challenging the tradition forced her neighbors to choose her as the winner as the tradition has taken many lives throughout the years and they can not be regretted thus the tradition must

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Better Essays

    The use of Satire/Irony within literature establishes situations where the unlikelihood of the occurrence of an event will happen. Jackson’s manipulation of his story, The Lottery, provides an unexpected twist to what one may seem to be a normal subject. Northrop Frye’s The Singing School, suggests that all stories are told in either one of four ways: Comedy, Romance, Tragedy or Satire/Irony (Frye 18). The use of Irony and its conventional associations eludes the reader from interpreting a story as a Romance, but instead give the reader a reversed twist. This use of ironic convention in literary work is seen through Shirley Jackson’s short story, The Lottery; the story of Tessie Hutchinson, stoned to death after winning her village’s annual lottery. Thus, The Lottery, according to Northrop Frye’s literary model, is a Satire/Irony.…

    • 2043 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    The short story, The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, is about a village is the past that had some traditions. One of the traditions was that every year one person would be chosen for sacrifice. They thought the sacrifice would bring a good growing season for the crops. This lottery only took 2 hours, but some took as long as two days. The theme is luck goes a long way because mathematically there’s a small chance of winning, luck is random, and luck isn’t always good.…

    • 369 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Well, you definitely have to read this story more than once to pick up on all of the small subtleties…

    • 517 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    The lottery take places annually in June and everyone in the town participates, but no one wants to win. Old Man Warner believe it should continue because he has done it for many years and is terrified of the idea of change. Tessie Hutchinson never questioned the lottery and was even excited until she became a victim of it. In this short story, Jackson depicts what it is like to do things without questioning the reason behind it. The lottery and the black box represents the past that everyone is struggling to move on…

    • 294 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    “The Lottery” was a controversial story written by Mrs. Shirley Jackson. She introduced her audience to an unusual and peculiar ritual held annually in a small village. It was a ceremony in which each resident had the same chance of being murdered, and it was used to control the town’s population.…

    • 339 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    " The most violent element in society is ignorance" (Emma Goldman). In 1948 Shirley Jackson had her short story "The Lottery'' published. This was right when the world started to recover from the events of World War II. Jackson's short story has received much criticism due to the violence that it contains. Many readers believed that the brutal society that Jackson imagined does not exist. The purpose of the short story was to tell expose the society for being full of hypocrites and selfish people. Jackson wanted to point out how people will turn a blind eye on a situation until it involves them. An example of this would be how during World War II people would do nothing about the Holocaust or the concentrations camps that were responsible for the deaths of millions of people. People did not take matters into their own hands until they were the ones face with those struggles. Throughout the short story there are several themes developed. This important messages can be applied to the real world to fix flaws that society contains.…

    • 215 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    In the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson the characters have different feelings about the lottery. Mrs.Hunderson doesn’t want to continue the lottery. She doesn’t want the lottery because she doesn’t want to see other people die especially children. During the lottery, Mrs. Hunderson and the old man Warner got in a argument. While picking the pieces of paper the old man Warner argued with Mrs. Hunderson about being late all the time. Warner got mad at her because she’s always late and she thinks that she won’t be picked for the lottery. The people had to open their paper to see if they got picked and Mrs. Henderson got chosen for the lottery. You shouldn’t be late to anything and you shouldnt walk around like nothing bad will happen…

    • 133 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    “The lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a short story. The story “The lottery” is about these people that keep their “tradition” “The lottery” is about murder. They use “The lottery” as a way to keep their population down and not grow to big. They Are also crazy cause they stone people to death and just like to watch people in pain. In “The Lottery”, Shirley Jackson uses symbolism to illustrates the themes of tone mood and symbolism which will help you better understand the story.…

    • 750 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    “The lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “first they came” by Martin Neimoller are both great story’s where the theme is standing up for what is right isn’t always the easiest path. In the lottery Mrs. Hutchinson wins and because she followed the crowd and played the game. And that doesn’t work out to well, and when the speaker in first they came does what everyone else does he is nearly executed.…

    • 365 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    A short fictional story published by Shirley Jackson The Lottery was originally published in the magazine The New Yorker in 1948.…

    • 1048 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Lottery is a short story written by Shirley Jackson in 1948, yet still, leaves a mark on any person who gets their hands on it today. The story starts out by setting an enjoyable atmosphere at the beginning of summer. The community gathers and the story almost fulfills the reader’s idea of a perfect town activity. However, the story has a sharp twist at the end that leaves the reader in shock. Jackson wrote the story to leave an impact and whom how quickly human nature can change. Shirley Jackson shows the duality of human nature in the characters of the children, Tessie Hutchinson, and Mr. Summers.…

    • 631 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Is winning always a win? will not this time. “The Lottery” takes place in a small village that has a weird way of doing things. Many people call this village there home but two of the residents stand out to me. Mr. Summers and Old man Warner were both men that supported the lottery.…

    • 507 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Most people believe the lottery is a win but in “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson it is exactly the opposite. In this short story a small town of villagers stone to death one of their own, once a year, for the sake of crops. There are several characters the reader encounters that play significant roles in the story, such as Mrs. Delacriox and Mr. Summers.…

    • 431 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" is a story of a small town whose citizens are required to participate in a yearly "lottery". The reader soon finds, however, that unlike most lotteries this is not a lottery that you hope to win. Although it is not fairly clear who the main character of "The Lottery" is we learn that Tessie Hutchinson ends up being the dynamic character of the story. When she finds out that her husband, Bill Hutchinson, is the winner of this lottery she begins to complain saying that he did not have enough time to choose any paper he wanted. Bill, still not having a problem with the lottery, tells Tessie to shut up and they continue on. All of Tessie's life she has been peer pressured into thinking that the lottery was just a fun thing that the town had always done. It is not until she is declared the winner that her attitude changes about the lottery, and she learns that peer pressure can sometimes lead you to a position that you never wanted to be in.…

    • 733 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Protagonist: The protagonist in this story would be Mrs. Hutchinson because since the beginning of the story she stood out from the rest of the crowd, simply because she had forgotten about the lottery she had gotten distracted by chores, and when she saw her family she in the front she was hesitant to get to them and after her husband was chosen she claimed the draw had been unfair,…

    • 862 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays