Dreadful Lottery 2
RUNNING HEAD: The lottery 1
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The lottery story by Shirley Jackson uses the black box to portray death universally as a symbol which is used to equalize human beings. She has written six novels, more than 200 novels, and two memoirs. She has several awards in 1944 she is awarded for ‘Come dance with me in Ireland.’ In 1960 she was given an award for a national book in 1949 the Henry award for the lottery. There was a lottery day in the village, and the reader thinks it is something positive, but ironically it turns out negatively. There is the theme of violence together with cruelty in the story. The story shows self-interests where each and everyone minded about their welfare alone where a man conflicts with society.
The story seemed confusing as well as odd according to my view. There is the introduction of a village that had a lottery day and us the readers tend to believe it is a good thing (Jackson 2015). As I enjoyed the reading, I was anxious to know who would win the lottery. Unfortunately, the story turns out that a person who was from the village was to sacrificed.
I saw Shirley using the theme of violence clearly in the story; there is inhumanity in society, and people are cruel to others. She portrays human beings as brutal creatures. We see people in the village gathering as in a lottery ceremony to decide who to be killed Beauchamp 2014 ). The children had gathered stones there before, so they use them to stone the person. As they were withdrawing from the lottery, Tessie Hutchinson member of the family doesn’t help him.
I also saw foreshadowing the children gathered stones in the town square, this seemed a childish game to me, but at the end, we see the stones had a purpose. Here we see people who never minded of other people’s welfare apart from their personal affairs; they were brutal because they killed an innocent person.
In conclusion, as I was reading the story, it seemed conclusion but at the end I when I figured out on the themes and the little elements Shirley used then the story made sense to me when I reread the story. I realized there was a reality in the story.
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Jackson, S. (2015). The lottery and other stories. MacMillan.
Beauchamp, D. E. (2014). Lottery justice. Journal of public health policy, 2(3), 201-205.