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This particular lottery actually has intentions of hurting people and taking their lives. Shirley Jackson plays with the audience’s mind creating various moods throughout the story. In the beginning paragraph, Shirley Jackson starts the story off with a bright and festive mood. “The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. The people of the village began to gather in the bank, around ten o’clock;” Thereis a feeling that the mood will continue to either get better or stay the same.
Conformity and Rebellion Although Shirley Jackson and Amy Tan are two different writers with diverse backgrounds, their stories have some similar plots. “The Lottery” and “Two Kinds” equally share the themes of conformity and rebellion. In “The Lottery,” the villagers blindly sacrifice one of their own, which we are led to believe will bring a good crop next year. In “Two Kinds,” the mother attempts to control her daughter’s rebellion against becoming a pianist. In “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, people robotically follow a tradition simply because it has always been done.
She was in favor of the story that was making him laugh before she even heard it.” Their eyes were watching God is a novel written by Zora Neale Hurston. We see the main character’s quest for love. Janie is the protagonist of this novel. Janie finally finds her true love after two marriages. She meets Tea Cake her love of her life in an afternoon when the whole town left to watch a game including Hezekiah a seventeen year old boy that helps Janie around the store.
As Mr. Adams puts in his facts about how the village in the north was talking about giving up the lottery, Old Man Warner replies, “pack of crazy fools, listening to the young folks, nothings good enough for them. Next thing you know they’ll be wanting to go back to live in caves, nobody work anymore, live that way for a while” (143). The Hutchinson family shows the faults humans have, such as being a coward and showing indifference. Ms. Hutchinson shows evil and how a mother can risk her own child’s safety and life since she was willing to demand her married daughter to draw to improve her chances of survival. Shirley Jackson shows how coldness and lack of compassion in people can exhibit in situations regarding tradition and values.
The Lottery really starts to uncover itself when everyone has already chosen a slip and they realize that the Hutchinson family has the black slip. Tessie Hutchinson became hysterical, screaming “ you didn’t give him enough time to take any paper he wanted I saw you. It wasn’t fair.” Of course Tessie is upset because her family chose the black slip. Jackson begins to show us how all of a sudden someone can begin to become rebellious. We wonder if Tessie would have spoken up if it was another family was chosen.
Hutchinson says to her husband, “Get up there, Bill”(391). Once all of the families had drawn, and the lottery “winners” were chosen, the atmosphere of support completely changes. Mrs. Hutchinson claims that Mr. Hutchinson was rushed, and that it was not fair. She then tries to make her daughters, who are now married and who enter the lottery with their husbands, draw with the Hutchinson family. Instead of having close family ties as before, Mrs. Hutchinson now tries to better her odds by endangering her own daughters.
Bear Grylls once said “A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance". In The Lottery, the villagers have a type of lottery that results in the death of a villager every time this lottery is held, and the villagers are too proud of this tradition to actually cease these meaningless deaths. Moreover, in The Necklace, the main character, Madame Mathilde, borrows what she thinks is a very expensive necklace from her friend and Mathilde’s vanity doesn’t allow her to actually admit that she loses it and she ends up wasting a decade of her life paying off debts. These two short stories support Grylls’ words by showing how pride or vanity has damaging effects for the characters in the stories, In The Lottery by Shirley Jackson and The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant, the lottery box and the pearl necklace are symbols of human pride or vanity and show the inevitable downfall that comes
It wasn’t fair (8)”. When it was Tessie’s families turn to draw from the black box to see which member of the Hutchinson family was going to be sacrificed, knowing that once married her daughter could not draw with her family; she tried to convince Mr. Summers to include her married daughter to lessen her chances of being chosen. “There’s Don and Eva, Mrs. Hutchinson yelled. Make them take their chance. Daughters draw with their Husbands’ families, Tessie, you know that as well as anyone else (8).” The tradition of the lottery was held so strong on the town’s members, even Tessie’s own
Me sista, she had to leave us” May doesn’t even belong with her mother anymore because she is dead “Mungi and the stingray lay around in my beating mind” May remembered the stingrays pain just like the pain her mother would have gone through “Everything, through Aunty’s tired eyes, was bad luck. Bad luck until she won the Tip Top Bread Grocery Grab. After the win everything seemed to be a game, a gamble” May felt she could belong with her aunty. But after her aunty winning something she is now a drinker and a gambler. May doesn’t want to belong to