Tradition In Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

“Shirley Jackson was born on December 14th, 1916 in San Francisco, California. She grew up in Burlingame, California”. “At a young age living in California she wanted to pursue her career in writing poetry and short stories”. In Shirley’s teenage years she moved to the east coast where she attended university of Rochester.The following year Shirley attended Syracuse University where her writing became serious and finally wrote her first book. She then married a man named Stanley Hyman. Stanley was an editor which he has experience in writing as well. After college the two got married, had kids, and moved to Vermont where Stanley got a job offer at Bennington College. With a lot on her hands Shirley never gave up on writing short stories. “The Lottery” which was Shirley’s 2nd book made her well known. It caused an embroilment because of what the story was about. When you hear the word “Lottery” some might think money and some might think tradition. The violent behavior included being stone and murdered. This type of event wasn’t a maybe I’ll show up maybe I won’t, it was mandatory. It’s a small town so everyone knows each other and everyone knows what’s going on.You’ll be lucky after this event to go home alive. This story was more about tradition, but this type of tradition was a violent one.
It was June 27th clear and sunny day and the kids
This is a cruel event where people attend to stone others and watch someone lose a loved one. 15 countries around the world still perform stoning up to this day. Countries like Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and many more perform stoning. This is horrifying to even think of because people find this even gratifying, even young ones feel the same way. This is a bad form of human behavior and this what The Adam’s family were trying to prevent. Whoever the winner is each year of this event wish they were the loser because of