Conformity In The Lottery

To properly illustrate my first point, in "The Lottery" the tone is very contemptuous. To brief, the lottery consists of a group of people, each having an equal chance of receiving the winning slip. Receiving this slip results in, obtaining the right to get stoned by the people around them. When the people get elected to get stoned it shows the brutality of human nature, however this method was used so that the plantation of crops remain adequate. Considering in the story, Tessie only speaks out how "unfair" the lottery is when her family is chosen, it displays how she views herself in comparison to others. The observer of this text can infer that if it were someone else stoned or chosen to be stoned she would not have spoken out. For inference in the story, Mrs. Hutchinson says "[clean] forgot what day it was […] and they both laughed softly."(Jackson 28-29) In other words, Mrs. Hutchinson acted as though

Lotteries weren’t always about millions of dollars. A popular author of short stories, Shirley Jackson brought light to this in her story “The Lottery”. As a reader I learn, the lottery is a ritual where a citizen of the town is chosen at random and abuse. This not only shows how society negatively influences people blindly, but at random as well. Jackson wrote this story to inform people of the way we live, and how society can change very fast without warning. By illustrating how the town turned on Tessie after she drew the wrong slip of paper, she gave a Segway to the way people think and how things are not

Considering in the story, Tessie accepts the lottery that is taking place within her village. For instance in the story, Mrs. Hutchinson says, "[clean] forgot what day it was […] and they both laughed softly."(Jackson 28-29). In other words, Mrs. Hutchinson acted as though there was no lottery taking place as well as nobody dying momentarily, mainly because she accepted the fact somebody had to die to keep the village business going. Mrs. Hutchinson later on in the story says, "[Mr. Summers did not] give [Bill Hutchinson] time enough to take any paper he wanted." (Jackson 31). The viewer finds Mrs. Hutchinson's reaction very ironic because her attitude shifted because she felt like it is tolerable to let other people die, but when it comes to her being, she feels like she

To stand firm in ones beliefs is a difficult task. It takes a strong-minded person with boldness to stand for what he or she believes in. The possible consequence for doing so is isolation, humiliation or the success of changing ones view. Given that standing up for oneself makes the person vulnerable, out of fear, many suppress their ideas and settle for the beliefs of others. In The Lottery, The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas and The Namesake, the characters struggled with the decision to conform to society or go against social norms to defend their morals.

In The Lottery and The Hunger Game, the drawing lots are traditional conformity. In The Lottery, every June 27th, people of village gather in the square and people join the drawing lots. When the drawing lots are going along, people of village use the black box which use from old times traditionally. In The Hunger Game, all people from each district such as children and adults gather for draw lots every year.

In “The Lottery,” Tessie Hutchinson states that the lottery is not justifiable and “it isn’t fair, it isn’t right,’ (Jackson, 6). At the end of the story, Mrs. Hutchinson engages herself in rebellious actions by claiming that the lottery is unjust. In consequence, her objection towards the lottery ultimately results in her death. Though Tessie

Hostility in “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson’s short story, “The Lottery” uses specific word choice and details to convey a hostile tone. As the lottery of death is coming to a closure, Jackson includes the words “It wasn’t fair!” and “Shut up, Tessie…” (31) to reveal the villager’s reaction towards Tessie’s family lottery ticket getting chosen. They are so insistent with each other to accept their fate, and allow themselves to be killed.

The lottery does not resort in a giant winning, unless you call giving your life something to take pride in. Your life depends on sheer luck when you draw a card out of the black box, because the next sacrifice might just be you. Unfortunately for Tessie Hutchinson, she just so happened to be the lottery’s latest victim.

A couple months ago on June, 27, in the town of Rumbale was no ordinary day. They had a special tradition that goes by the name of The Lottery. But this lottery isn’t like no other. You don't want to win. Why is that? Because the ‘winner’ gets stoned to death. You might be wondering why is this even a tradition? No one knows, traditions are like unwritten laws, you go with the flow if the people you surround yourself with are doing a tradition or cultural habit then they expect you do it as well.

On one hand, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a fictional short story about well the lottery, but it is not the lottery that you think of when you hear that word. The Claim of this essay is standing up for what is right may not be the easiest path. Evidence that supports this claim is “Suddenly, Tessie Hutchinson shouted to Mr. Summers, “You didn’t give him enough time to take any paper he wanted. I saw you. It wasn’t fair!”” This quote means that Tessie Hutchinson was trying to stand up for her husband Bill Hutchinson. However, after she does this the crowd goes after her telling her “Be a good sport, Tessie” Mrs. Delacroix called, and Mrs. Graves said “All of us took the same chance” “shut up, Tessie” Bill Hutchinson said”. This means Tessie tried to stand up for her husband and it clearly was not easy. “”I think we ought to start over,” Mrs. Hutchinson said, as quietly as she could “I tell you it wasn’t fair. You didn’t give him enough time to choose. Everybody saw that”” This quote means that Tessie was still trying to stand up for her family and no one listened

Tessie was running late for The Lottery in a way of thinking it would not be her, and she was not missing out on the content that happened while gone. “‘Clean forgot what day it was,’ she said to Mrs, Delacroix. ‘and then I looked out the window and the kids were gone, and then I remembered it was the twenty-seventh and came a-running.’” The Lottery does not seem to mean much to Tessie. In Jackson’s “The Lottery” Jackson creates Tessie to be late and make her character short.

Traditions were made to continue for generations. Everyone has a dark side to themselves. Both of these statements are connected in “The Lottery”.

In the lottery they shape the way a cultures lives and interacts with the world around them. Traditions bring one another together and it's a time to enjoy each others presence. The Lottery tradition plays a role in "keeping the town happy". The Lottery in the town is a backbone of the community; it does not only serves as a day of socialization but also one may see it as a sacrificial offering.

How do you celebrate a tradition? Does it say anything about you ? Everyone has a different way of doing traditions, and the way this community celebrates tell a large part of who they are. In the story “The Lottery” two different character are each separately influenced by the tradition of the lottery, which has been passed down through generations. The symbolism of the lottery links the generations together and allows the reader to see how each of the characters view important rituals and tradition. As the lottery is passed from generation to generation, the reader is provided with perspectives and insight into how a family ritual influences those generations. In “ The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, she uses symbolism to reveal different

The Lottery has a many themes that the characters or group of characters show. There was fate because no on really knew who would be picked, and when Tessi Hutchinson was picked, it was because of fate. This fate is different than the kind of fate shown in Antigone. In Antigone, the person’s actions controls their fate, while in The Lottery there is no action shown which can lead to her fate. It is an act of randomness. Tessi Hutchinson had a weakness which was that she kept on saying, “It isn’t fair!” and all sorts of excuses like that to prevent her family or herself from being picked, even though she had gone through the lottery many times before without saying anything. Her weakness is that she cared too much for herself and her family in a society where one person’s opinion doesn’t matter and it is a dog-eat-dog world. One can clearly tell that, by our