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Traditions and rituals are important elements which partially define and distinguish a culture. However, blindly-following these traditions that are meant to culturally strengthen a group can result in extreme situations in real life. Some people seem to have lost their direct connection with the tradition and are simply inclining to the benefits it will bring….

            Perhaps winning the lottery is one of the events that could be tagged as “life changing.” Aside from the fact that an individual won the “moneybags,” the idea of how to handle a large amount of money could be pretty confusing because an individual would never know what to do next. Nevertheless, if I…

The Message Sent in The LotteryThe shock value of Shirley Jacksons The Lottery is not only widely known, but also widely felt. Her writing style effectively allows the reader to pass a judgment on themselves and the society in which they live. In The Lottery Jackson is making a comparison to human nature. It is…

No matter the society, contentious subjects and pusillanimous individuals can cause discord. This idea is exemplified in both Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants.” In “The Lottery,” a small town conducts an annual lottery where the chosen individual is sacrificed. Meanwhile, “Hills like White Elephants” depicts a couple deliberating the…

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Flannery O’Connnors “A GoodMan Is Hard To Find” are stories that deal with mans inhumanity to man byillastrating different situation, but lead to the same conclusion and with nothought of the consequences. Jackson and O’Connor use central characters to showhow man has the power to distort reality into something the…

Authors often use shock to move the audience to a deeper understanding of a universal theme. In the story by Shirley Jackson titled “The Lottery,” a slow-paced story in a “peaceful” village ends with the brutal death of one of its populace. In the science fiction short story by Ursula Le Guin “The ones Who…

Published in 1948, The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson has become well known by the tradition of the village. Tradition plays a key role throughout the lives of the villagers. The title of this short story “ The Lottery” may lead one to believe that something good is to come but later as you read on,…

Humans sometimes feel that stereotypical beliefs or values are the black and white of life. In contrast, people are also unfitted to accept misleading truth. The perpetuation of archaic gender roles in “The Lottery” and the inability to accept unconventional truth in “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” highlights the negative effects of unexamined…

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There are many techniques that authors use to communicate their message within their work. Each of these literary techniques has their own purpose in influencing how the reader perceives what he or she reads. Frank O’Connor, the author of the short story “The Drunkard,” and Shirley Jackson, the author of “The Lottery,” used the literary…