Essays on Lottery

Social Engineering is the art of deceiving or manipulating a person to engage in an activity which may or may not be in the best interest of that person. Social engineering encompasses activities such as obtaining the information of someone else deceitfully, gaining access to the computers of other people without their consent and getting a person to fraudulently engage in activities which they could not have engaged in ordinarily (Hagnagy 9-10). Further, social engineering does not consist of merely one action. On the contrary, social engineering entails a multiplicity of skills fitted into a particular framework which when ...

Introduction

Gambling addiction is a problem characterized by persistent and repeated gambling behavior leading to distress. The paper will be a descriptive essay concerning gambling addiction in the United States and Canada, its effects, and treatment. The things that will be found interesting are the number of people of gambling disorder, the reason for the problem, and its effects. The reason why the topic is important is because of the high number of people gamble without knowing how gambling disorder is developed and the effects of gambling. Two sources will be used in writing the essay: a journal article by ...

A Reflection on Human Nature

When The New Yorker published Shirley Jackson’s famous story “the Lottery” in 1948, American readers immediately backlashed against the author and the magazine because they found the topic of the story—a mass stoning of a housewife whose name was drawn at random from a lottery—extremely offensive and grotesque. Readers went as far as cancelling their subscriptions to the magazine and numerous threatening mails started pouring in, addressed to the author and editorial staff of the magazine. Readers were also offended because many easily recognized their rural communities and the typical activities conducted in these places such ...

Today I will be presenting the similarities between the Lottery, by Shirley Jackson, and The Hunger Games, by Susanne Collins.

Slide 2: Both stories features a dystopian society routinely engaging in genocide This is dystopian in that everything appears to be in working order, or to be ok, with society at first but then a major problem is revealed in the form of the ceremonial killing of citizens. The Lottery never justifies the killing, but the Hunger games, the genocide occurs as a way for the Capital to maintain control over the districts.

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Both stories feature a lottery in which individuals are selected to die. Though the process is slightly different in these stories. The end result is the ...

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3. How is the setting in the stories listed below essential to our understanding of the events in these works? The setting of the story, The Lottery, stirs the readers to the very core as it helps in setting up the ambiance that leads to the climactic sequence in the course of the narrative. The description of the beautiful day and the open space in stark juxtaposition to the final barbaric act in the course of the story makes one understand the dichotomy between the societal norms and logical outlook. Right up to the very end, one is unable ...

Many Americans tend to believe that traditions or customs represent the nation, as it is key, that once opened a possibility and since then than a possibility is transformed from generation to generation. But in Shirley Jackson’s short story, called The Lottery, the tradition is described through a cruel lottery, that does not give prizes, it takes one human’s life each year instead. First and foremost, the procedure of the lottery was quite easy, the people of the village should gather in the square, and they were supposed to take part in a random drawing. Common sense ...

The Camelot Group operates the National Lottery in the United Kingdom. A wide range of regularly-refreshed draw-based games that are instantly played and won are offered. The games that are normally played include Lotto, Euromillions, thunder balls, and Lotto hot pick. There are also National Lottery scratch cards, though only a small percentage of adults play this game. Instant win games (played on desktops and mobile phones) are also offered and they have a range of games and instant cash prices. The players buy their tickets online, in stores or use their mobile devices. It is estimated that more ...

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) has set requirements for the protection of the rights of employees so that their rights are not violated. The FLSA have set certain target or age and salary requirements for the employees. According to them, the minimum age of a person for employment is16 years. At this age, the FLSA allows a person to work for unlimited hours. The FLSA does not allow people under 18 in hazardous occupations. If school going individuals of 14 and 15 years want to work, they can work but with a valid work permit and certain limitations. ...

Within each society, people build relationships that foster growth and development as people interact with each other. The relationships vary according to the work and social standards of the specific society. In other words, most people in a particular society will work together to develop a common idea that will help to bind people together as a community. Within these societies, there are those simple or common guiding principles that are practiced for extended periods and become an integral part of the culture and the traditions of the society. But, not all consensuses within the society will guarantee the ...

Prospect Theory and Disappointment Aversion

The Allais paradox is a problem designed by French economist Maurice Allais in 1953 to show common inconsistencies between the predictions of expected utility theory and actual observed choices of individuals. Many theories have been proposed to solve the Allais paradox, among which the Prospect Theory and the Theory of Disappointment Aversion, and both will be described in this essay.

Prospect Theory

Guthrie, C. (2003) describes how the two original proponents of the Prospect Theory, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, would meet every mid-day for a long time, and spend their time inventing interesting sets of gambles and observing our their ...

Introduction

Play LOTTO Research Lotto game rules (https://www.national-lottery.co.uk/), then design and implement a Matlab programme to generate several sets of Lotto numbers according to the amount of money specified. The relevant information about the Lotto game rules taken from the National Lottery website are enumerated in the following bullet points:

Tickets cost £2 per play

Simply select six numbers from 1-59 or pick Lucky Dip for a random selection Choose how many lines to play The Matlab programme will operate the same way as the Lucky Dip feature of the website. The Matlab programme will randomly generate sets of six numbers from 1-59 that are ...

During the late 1940s, America was made up of small rural villages, in which it was customary for the community leaders to construct civic gatherings, to draw the citizens together at a time when the world was at war with one another. People were encouraged to socialize through town activities that drew them together and create a stronger, more cooperative community. This was the main theme of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”—a story centering on one of the rural communities in America during the 1940s. The story features a lottery being taken place in a community composed of ...

Quasi-experiments are research designs that attempt to mimic an experimental design. However, the researcher cannot control the assignment of study participants to groups: a key feature for true experiments (Wadsworth, n.d.). This paper explores quasi-experiments as a research design.

Part 1

Advantages of Quasi-experiments Firstly, quasi-experiments, as the name suggests, are not true experiments. They contain elements of both a true experimental and correlational research (Jackson, 2012). Therefore, they allow the researcher to obtain stronger conclusion compared to when they conduct a pure correlational research. Secondly, quasi-experiments are useful in circumstances when conducting a true experiment is either infeasible or very ...

Many authors regard their work as being a single standalone piece of art. By this logic, it can be safe to assume that the authors work their literary pieces to stand out against similar genres of works. However, in some cases many different stories end up sharing the same motif and theme. In many cases like this, it is not because of two authors collaborating to come up with a theme, or lesson, to teach society but a stroke of luck. When forming their stories, authors use society around them to develop their characters, settings, and such so in ...

Personal Financial Advice

According to Arends, management of personal finances is not as complicated as people think. To him, personal financial management is simpler. Arends pointed out that people who wish to manage their personal finances ought to first discard pontificating, jargon, and technical stuff. Arends further suggested how people should effectively manage their personal finances. To Arends, financial and economic forecasts are meant to create jobs for forecasters, and they should be ignored. On financial investments and strategies, the idea is to keep simple because the reason why they appear complex is to create jobs for salesmen and managers. There is ...

Events in our life strongly depends on the probability. I often try to calculate probability of the events in my profession as well as in my real life. If my memory serves me right, the last such try was about week ago. I was in a good mood and I decided to buy a lottery ticket. I did not expect to win the jackpot seriously. However, I was wondering, what is my probability of winning the jackpot? I knew that the lottery ticket contained six numbers. Each number was in the range of 1-50. I assumed that the lottery ...

As the adage goes, the accomplishment of goals in life is success. To achieve a goal is to attain self-actualization, therefore, it can be argued that what people consider to be a success lies in the perspective of realization and following one’ s calling. When it comes to ascertaining reasons for success, many argue that a successful person either gets lucky or makes it through many hours of persistent and hard work. In order to understand reasons for success one has to first evaluate the definition of it: what constitutes success or what qualities does a person obtain when ...

Abstract

This paper provides a detailed exploration of the methodologies, findings and conclusions of five researchers in the area of entrepreneurship and the various factors that impact on it. The aim of this review is to support the research that on “Motivational Factors of students becoming Entrepreneurs using a push-pull theory of Entrepreneurship.” This review explores issues such as social capital and cultural capital and how they reinforce entrepreneurial development. Further, this review explores risk-taking and the factors surrounding it. The research concludes the risk-taking in entrepreneurship involves not only an examination of the returns, but also the duration during ...

Short stories are some of the literature read mostly by people because they are interesting and considered more educative to young and old generation (Gioia 7). Many scholars wrote short stories in the twentieth century, and one of them was Shirley Jackson, who wrote The Lottery. The Lottery is among the most favorite short stories in the History of American Literature. As narrated by Cummings (3) he explains that the function took place between 10 am and noon on June 27th in a small village with a population of only three hundred villagers. The event took place on a ...

After the Second World War, the American government entered into the global power bracket. It became an integral political and economic powerhouse in the world. As a result, most of the developing nations turned to it for support. As Vietnam struggled to free itself from the South Vietnamese communist Common Front, the American troops were sent to help the incumbent government gain control of the country. The entry of the United States into Vietnam became one of the most controversial wars in the history of the United States. In America, military conscription had been in use for years during ...

Love- A feeling, a word and a sensation that has made people laugh, cry , kill, poets write realms of poetry, scientists try and understand what it is all about and many others wish for it. There are different kinds of love- the love a mother has for her child, the love a father shows his children, love for friends, pets and then there is romantic love. Of the above, perhaps it is romantic love that has been the most written about and vilified. Love is also a state of being that makes a person experience different emotions at the ...

Horror through Imagination: How do Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, and Shirley Jackson create suspense in their stories “Harvey’s Dream,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Lottery”

Introduction

Suspense is a literary style that is adopted by most authors to invoke the creative minds of the audience. Therefore, the authors intentionally fail to draw a conclusion to an event in a story, but instead live it upon the audience to think. On the other hand, mystery is an occurrence that is beyond human understanding, and in most cases it is associated with murder. This essay is anchored on these ...

Risk and Return Analysis

Risk and Return Analysis

Question 1:

The relationship between the risk and the return can be defined as the positive correlation between them. In risk management procedures, it is highly probable that the investments or the projects which are more risky will generate high profits for the business or investor. Similarly, the investments or the projects which are likely to generate low levels of profits will expose the investors or business to the lower level of risk in the market. (Maranjian, 2013) There are several methods for the financial accountants to measure the level of returns, according to their acceptable level ...

Having an astonishing and terrifying plot, the short story under analysis represents a particular interest, as it is permeated with a wide scope of literary tools employed to expose the author’s intention and deep sense behind the lines. One of the most significant means of sense creation and development in the story is symbolism. This literary element is considered to be the core of the short story, and it saturates the text with the conceived meaning, mood, attitude, effect. Though Sherley Jackson in her “The Lottery” (2008) illustrates an ordinary bucolic environment, its antihumanistic rituals appear to be ...

I decided to choose two short stories for this essay: The Lottery written by Shirley Jackson in 1948 and Edward J. Delaney’s Clean. It looks like both plots and authors do not have many similarities at the first sight. Jackson was a popular American writer of her time and influenced some famous authors like Stephen King. The Lottery describes a world where villages and towns sacrifice one person a year to have better harvest. They choose the victim by using lottery and then all residents kill the “winner” with rocks. People forgot secondary aspects of the ritual, but ...

The Lottery was a short story written by Shirley Jackson about a small village of around 300 people practicing a tradition or a ritual wherein all families, as initially represented by the heads of their families participate in a lottery. The irony of this, however, is that in modern culture, a lottery has generally been associated with good luck or to be more specific, a big fortune. Winning the lottery has, in modern America, been associated with winning a huge sum of cash after getting the right combination of numbers. In the case of Jackson’s The Lottery however, ...

Group identity has negative and positive effects on people in the society. For some persons, there is the belief that single person or specific groups in the society must make personal sacrifices that involves giving up one’s freedom and right so that the larger portion of the society may benefit. In the contemporary society, people make a lot of personal sacrifices for political, religious, social or economic reasons and these sacrifices often lead to an infringement on the rights of those who make these sacrifices. There are those who recognize that the needs of the society are greater ...

Is winning the lottery a good thing or a bad thing?

Research questions. This study seeks to answer the following questions: Is winning the lottery a good idea? What becomes of lottery winners? Methods used to answer research questions The research questions elaborated above will majorly be addressed via well-structured questionnaires. The questionnaires will aim to examine the popular belief that lottery winners are normally happy people. A comparative outlook will also be introduced where necessary. This will enable the researcher to compare two control groups: lottery winners vs. participants who have lost in a lottery. These comparisons will essentially be drawn with reference to secondary data sources.

Participants.

All through ...

Dear _____________

I have just finished reading a short story called The Lottery. At first, I assumed the story was the one written by the famous American writer known as Shirley Jackson. However, it was an entirely different story but one that ends in death just the same. While the story was well written, I did not like it so much. The content of the story made me feel helpless like the child who is narrating the story. Reading about the lynch mob and knowing the result of such crowds means someone will die without every getting a proper court trial. ...

Florida

The Florida Legislature is seated in the Florida State Capital in Tallahassee. The Florida Legislature is composed of 160 state legislators. The state’s legislature is responsible for creating and amending laws within the state of Florida. In order to do this, legislators are responsible for proposing legislation in the form of a bill. If successful, the legislation goes through a review, readings, and requires a majority vote. Then, the bill is either signed into law by the state’s governor or the bill is vetoed. The state’s legislature also has the ability to propose amendments within the ...

The theme of Tradition change in “The Lottery” and “The Destructors."

Change in traditions is a topic that both Shirley Jackson's The Lottery and Graham Greene’s The Destructors. Although written in different historical times and using different settings to pass the messages, the two short stories share a common theme of change. While Greene creates his chief antagonist in T (Trevor), who is determined to destroy the only house that reminisces tradition in London after the bomb attack, Jackson uses the event of a village lottery to indicate the changing society, but barbarism is persisting. In both stories, the theme of tradition erosion is presented to the audience. The ...

Compare and Contrast Theme of Tradition change in “The Lottery” and “The Destructors”

Thesis statement Change in traditions is a theme that both Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery and Graham Greene’s The Destructors. Although written in different historical times and using different settings to pass the messages, the two short stories share a common theme of change. While Greene creates his chief antagonist in T (Trevor), who is determined to destroy the only house that reminisces tradition in London after the bomb attack, Jackson uses the event of a village lottery to indicate the changing society, but barbarism is persisting.

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Both short stories involve erosion of the traditions and change in ...

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson

“The Lottery” is considered to be the best Jackson`s short story which unites sarcasm, horror, humor and philosophy – all rolled into one. This story was written in June 26, 1948. The author of the story describes the American village of that period of time and the ritual which is observed in almost every city. This ritual is called “The Lottery” and Shirley Jackson makes a reader immersed into details and peculiarities of it. This is a story with an extremely unpredictable ending, which makes the reader somehow confused and shocked. But it is the true reality, which Jackson ...

According to Jon Gertner’s, article, “The Futile Pursuit of Happiness” humans are not poor judges when it comes to foreseeing future emotional states. Professors of psychology in various universities Daniel Gilbert, Tim Wilson, Dan Kahneman and an economist George Loewenstein have embarked on studying a specific emotional and behavioral prediction. One of their studies was hedonic forecasting, which refers to the prediction of one’s emotional state in future as a process that affects behavior, preferences, and decision-making. For an instance, how do we imagine emotions and feelings about winning the lottery? How that will affect our delight, ...

Introduction

Shirley Jackson is one of the most famous and popular female authors of the XX century. She is mostly famous for her uncanny novels such as The Haunting of the Hill House, We Have Always Live in the Castle as well as her short stories such as The Lottery or The Adventures of James Harris.

Her life may be divided into such periods as:

Childhood and life in California Sуracuse University Life in North Bennington Work for The New Yorker. Childhood and life in California She starts wrіting her novels near the Burlingame in California when she is a teenager. After spending her whole childhood in ...

Plot:

The story begins with families gathering in the center of town; children are piling up rocks and women are catching up on gossip. The town is preparing for a lottery, and Mr. Summers is making sure everything is in order, including the black box and slips with different family’s names on them. While people begin to get pull tickets from the box for the lottery, a couple guys talk about how other towns are doing away with the lottery, and whether their town should or not. Bill Hutchinson’s wife Tessie draws the “winning ticket”. What she wins ...

Jackson begins by enumerating the total population of the village, mentioning that it contained about three hundred people. Villages are often comprised of a small number of people, the majority of whom know each other. The setting in this story is significant as it creates a contrast between what these villages ought to be and what they are. Details provided in the story such as the imagery of “the flowers were blooming profusely…” paint a picture of an ordinary gentle summers in a village. There is emphasis on nature in the environment to indicate the quality of life in a typical village. ...

Introduction:

The act of deception of another human being through the use of electronic mail is known as email fraud. The idea of deceiving people online became effective immediately after the introduction of email as a source of communication. As the curiosity of people increased, so did an obsession of hitting the jackpot of luck through the internet by winning a lottery or by winning a vacation, pretty much an idea of anything that could lure people into believing they have won something precious was brought to use.

In the today’s world email frauds have taken a very different and ...

Background:

- Introduction: Our position is against choosing traits, which is a violation of the principles behind biomedical ethics. Trait and gene selection is morally wrong and defies nature. With the advancement in biomedical and genetic engineering, more and more people are aware of the possibility of selecting traits for their children. On the positive side, such technology and possibilities are outstanding innovation and shows the great leaps taken by science. On the other hand, having such power has brought about a lot of discrimination towards those viewed as genetic flaws. The effects of trait selection are negative and may continue ...

“In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!" "And what if you do get a second chance?" "You take it!” ~ (Anonymous, 2014)

Literature and other disciplines in Humanities fosters a sense of understanding regarding realities that discusses human experiences. From the definition of humanities and coining it from its root word “human”, it means can only originate from an aspect that entirely focuses on the aspect concerning human endeavors. True enough, humanities are a field of study that is involved in the pursuit of gaining understanding of concepts, principles and ideologies relating to human culture ( ...

- While I was surprised by the extent of the ‘prize’ at the end, its negative nature became obvious when Mrs. Hutchinson started her protestations about the drawing being unfair. If winning the lottery was truly a good thing, she would not have protested. After reading the end of the tale, the hints in the first few paragraphs become more obvious. For example, most of the interactions among the villagers are more reserved and quiet, such as the men merely smiling and not laughing and the boys jealously guarding their rock piles. Additionally, the women wore faded clothes rather than ...

1. The “Lottery,” a revered story by Shirley Jackson, works on the ironic front to bring forth the fact that a lottery, which may be considered as a fortune, in the metaphorical meaning, is always being picked in the form of a scapegoat.

2. The ritual of the renowned book, Lottery in Shirley Jackson's story appear to be as old as the town itself, particularly since a large portion of the occupants never review any of the revered old rituals. This implies that they are antiquated in a few ways and established in conventions of superstitions that appear to include products and ...

Evaluating jobs and employment benefits: health, disability, and retirement plans

http://www.pressreader.com/search?query=Evaluating%20Jobs%20and%20Employee%20Benefits&in=ALL&date=Last3Days In accordance with the acts of employment and the law job evaluation has to be reviewed and be followed. Job evaluation helps to determine the efficiency of workers in any organization. According to the Wall street journal of 2015, April, 22 (Wickline) Lottery organization was eliminating some job positions to enforce efficiency and to reduce on wage bill. The process started after a serious job evaluation by finance department that brought up the idea. The lottery had to terminate some of the top employees but because they were enjoying employee benefit. Their benefits had ...

Introduction

In a negotiation process, the participants in the process essentially attempt to undertake some form of exchange or trade. The exchange can take different forms such as services for services, goods for services, money for services or money for goods. In all these forms of exchange or trade, each participant privy to the negotiation process aims at maximizing his/her advantage. In other words, the negotiator will try his best to come out with a good if not the best deal or cut. This means that each party will aim at gaining much more for little consideration or exchange.

Depending on the ...

Shirley Jackson's Piece

This piece by Shirley Jackson was interesting through and through. Taking into consideration that this was written more than half a decade ago makes me think that it probably was so ahead of its time because it was set up in some kind of alternate apocalyptic world where people were chosen to be killed and it wasn’t a big deal for anyone.

Upon reading the text, at first I thought that the “Lottery” pertained to something good that whoever “wins” it will become very happy. Because it’s true today, when people hear the word lottery there is ...

Michael J. Sandel through his essay, “How Markets Crowd out Morals” brings forward the issue of how overcrowding of market effects the market ethics. It is commonly thought that markets are made to provide benefits to the people in all walks of life. According to Sandel’s claim that in the present era we can buy and sell anything, but there are things that money should not be able to buy or should not buy and at times money cannot buy everything. His entire essay revolves around what can or should be bought and how some marketing strategies ...

Introduction:

The books that will be compared in this comparison essay are ‘The Hunger Games’ by Suzanne Collins and ‘The Lottery’ by Shirley Jackson. While ‘The Lottery’ focuses on the town’s people having to draw out various slips of paper to see who gets a slip of each with a black dot of pencil, ‘The Hunger Games’ tells of Katniss taking the role of her sister as she is called to participate in the Hunger Games and tries to survive in the environment with Peeta. In the ends, this book maintains that Katniss and Peeta won ...

Annuities and perpetuities are types of financial instrument, which make payments at regular intervals (parrino & kidwell, 2009). Although both perpetuities and annuities make regular payments, there is a difference in the life span of the financial instruments. Annuities have a finite lifespan while perpetuities have an infinite life span (Grinblatt & Titman, 2002). Examples of annuities are; loan repayment and lottery winning. For loan repayment, the principal and interest are repaid in regular intervals while in lottery winning the winner receives a fixed amount of the winning for fixed period. Example of perpetuity is a charity donation and a pension fund is a pension fund ...

The American Immigration System

Immigration is a contentious issue in America today and many people and advocacy groups are highly opinionated on issues relating to immigration. The tone of the article generally depends on the viewpoint of the organization publishing the article. There are several barriers to United State citizenship including financial barriers, language barriers, and simply misinformation. The United States’ attitude to towards immigration seems to ebb and flow between encouraging and discouraging immigration. Several article discuss the financial barriers, a structural barrier, that immigrants face when applying for citizenship. An article from the National Institute of Immigration Law Center discusses the various ...

The recent Supreme Court ruling rendering gay marriages legal across the union has been received with the usual excitement and disappointingly self-righteous arguments on both sides of the fence. I do not want to pretend to know any better, and I trust Americans to make of Obergefell v. Hodges, whatever they may, except I am taken aback at how the Supreme Court forced itself into what is a basically a social issue. It strikes me that a nation of 300 million people can fail convince itself of whether some of its own have a right to choose their marriage partners. In the same ...

The Birthright Lottery by Ayelet Shachar

The Canadian government has recently taken steps towards what they deem will make Canadian citizenship valuable. In 2009, a law was passed limiting or restricting people in obtaining Canadian citizenship. Children born abroad on the date 17 April 2009 and after would only obtain Canadian citizenship if at least one of the parents was a Canadian citizen by birth or by naturalisation. Canadian parents are therefore limited in passing citizenship to children born abroad after one generation. These restrictions have raised concern over which state children born abroad fall into and the implications one has to think of when they choose ...

“The Lottery” is a short story written in 1948 by Shirley Jackson. It was first published in June of that year in New Yorker magazine. It tells the story of a present day small town that conducts a lottery every summer on June 27. The purpose of the lottery is not revealed until the very end of the story. Reception for the story at the time was mixed. Many readers were shocked by the ending. It has since become an American classic and regarded as one of the most popular American short stories of all time. It is a required reading for many ...

The lottery by Shirley Jackson was published in 1948 in the New Yorker. It contains a historical context that made it be ranked among the best short stories in the American Literature. The lottery is termed as "a chilling tale of conformity gone mad.” The author has used symbolism and imagery throughout the story to provide insight of the activities that happened in the tradition setting. In the paper below, I will discuss the use of imagery and symbolism in the story, and this includes the lottery, the stones, the three-legged stool, and the black box.

THE LOTTERY

The lottery is the title ...

Budgeting is a crucial aspect of any institution or government’s operations with an aim of enhancing goals and objectives’ achievement in line with specific environment and needs. Thus, budgeting is greatly guided by policies that define the suitable actions in line with set goals and objectives either in response to changing environment or as a way of fostering opportunities’ utilization. In that respect, governments have budgeting planning that is specific to their constituents’ needs and that defines the objective of this analysis which seeks to demonstrate the budgeting process for a State in view of its status and environment. To achieve ...

In the short story “The Lottery”, written by Shirley Jackson in 1948, the author showcases a dystopian future in which tradition and a sense of community is placed above the individual. An ironic twist at the end turns a pleasant, slice-of-life story about a developing society into a morality tale in which our obsession with tradition is taken to its most extreme conclusion. The characters tacitly endorse horrific violence, showing the real monsters that lie at the very core of human nature. With “The Lottery,” Jackson wishes to showcase the foolishness of mob mentality and the gradual erosion of social freedoms from acceptance by ...

The Lottery is a short fiction written by Shirley Jackson. It is a story about a shocking tradition practiced by the people in a certain town. Shirley ironically gives the lottery a bad the ceremony of public stoning, contrary to what it originally means; winning a lot of money. The story focuses around a village during a ceremony they call the lottery that ensures there is enough rain for their crops. In the story, a number of literary devices are used by the author, for example, irony, symbolism, foreshadowing, only to mention but a few. The author uses these literary devices to make her story interesting and to keep ...

‘The lottery’ is luminous piece of literary work by Shirley Jackson. When this short story was published by the New Yorker in the year 1948, it attracted huge controversy and criticism. Jackson, with the help of irony as well as comedy, draws attention towards hypocritical behavior and flaws of the human beings. The story also talks about illogical practices as well as underlying evils of the society. This paper intends to discuss ‘The Lottery’ and several other related aspects. In the journey, after its first appearance, the story has got huge acclamations by the critics as well as ...

When people start living together and share some specific ideology and interests, society is formed. People have a tendency to interact with one another and the exchange their ideas and thoughts on several issues. Due to Such interactions, society, more or less, starts behaving and thinking in a specific way. Society categorizes several ideas as good, bad, necessary, and unacceptable (Jackson). It is not essential that what society believes is right or ethical; it may even be completely unethical. The same trend has been portrayed in Shirley Jackson’s story, "The Lottery”. Jackson, through her words, portrays the dilemma as ...

The two narratives, The Lottery and The One Who Walk Away from Omelas take us through the stories of two villages each with unique traditions that involve human sacrifice. These are rituals that have been blindly followed by the villagers, who even though understand why, are compelled to follow them. It appears as if people they never met, as they died long ago, designed the rules, which the villagers have to adopt and follow. Such traditions were passed onto them, and since those who understand their original meaning are not alive to witness, the suffering for them to undo ...

Introduction

'The Lottery' published in 1948 is one of the most controversial stories of its time. Centered on the theme of tradition, this short story was written by Shirley Jacksons, a notable American author. The story begins with a date mentioned as 27th June of an unspecified year with 300 residents of a small rural town gathering to take part in an annual tradition called 'the lottery'.The opening of the story also mentions about the village boys stuffing their pockets with stones but its connection with the lottery is revealed in the later part of the story. Meanwhile, each household of the village ...