Why Did Shirley Jackson Write The Lottery
Why did Shirley Jackson write "The Lottery?" - Essay
What was the real reason Tessie “won” the lottery? Because she came late, opposed the person in power by speaking of a flaw/protesting against the lottery. When the Hutchinson family draws the marked paper, she exclaims, “It wasn’t fair” singling her out and making her “win”.
How does this relate to real life? It relates to real life because everything in this story symbolizes or relates to things people in the world do all the time. It may not relate to real life too much in the present, but it may have a lot of relevance to the treatment of people in the 1900s.
Resources: http://www.sparknotes.com/short-stories/the-lottery/canalysis.html Shirley Jackson mainly wrote “The Lottery” for about two reasons, first to tell us about how …show more content…
It just shows that people blindly follow tradition and don’t understand what they are doing. The story seemed like it was an average day and it didn’t seem like someone would be killed because they have done this so many times and just went with the flow so they weren’t killed themselves. Bad tradition can keep going throughout history in a town, city, village, religion, or ethnic group and most of the time it doesn’t stop. It was just the norm for them to pick to do the lottery and have someone killed each year and they have no idea how unethical the tradition is. The lottery symbolized tradition or an idea that passes down through generations without question and realization of the problems it causes. Their low population may have relativity to the lottery yearly also. The black box was getting old, but the villagers only used pieces from the old box because it showed they didn’t think about change and the old is being passed down and they just keep doing the same thing because that’s how it was always done in the
What was the real reason Tessie “won” the lottery? Because she came late, opposed the person in power by speaking of a flaw/protesting against the lottery. When the Hutchinson family draws the marked paper, she exclaims, “It wasn’t fair” singling her out and making her “win”.
How does this relate to real life? It relates to real life because everything in this story symbolizes or relates to things people in the world do all the time. It may not relate to real life too much in the present, but it may have a lot of relevance to the treatment of people in the 1900s.
Resources: http://www.sparknotes.com/short-stories/the-lottery/canalysis.html Shirley Jackson mainly wrote “The Lottery” for about two reasons, first to tell us about how …show more content…
It just shows that people blindly follow tradition and don’t understand what they are doing. The story seemed like it was an average day and it didn’t seem like someone would be killed because they have done this so many times and just went with the flow so they weren’t killed themselves. Bad tradition can keep going throughout history in a town, city, village, religion, or ethnic group and most of the time it doesn’t stop. It was just the norm for them to pick to do the lottery and have someone killed each year and they have no idea how unethical the tradition is. The lottery symbolized tradition or an idea that passes down through generations without question and realization of the problems it causes. Their low population may have relativity to the lottery yearly also. The black box was getting old, but the villagers only used pieces from the old box because it showed they didn’t think about change and the old is being passed down and they just keep doing the same thing because that’s how it was always done in the