The Lottery
Zachary Snyder 10/09/05
Dr. Dean Mendell English Comp 1
The Lottery
\"The Lottery\" by Shirley Jackson was published in the June 28, 1948 issue of the New Yorker. It was written as a cynical social commentary and as a negative look on human nature. Shirley wrote this story to show how people blindly follow tradition without ever stopping to think and examine it. Jackson’s close attention to detail and brilliant writing style help to make this point. I feel that Shirley Jackson considers that unexamined secular traditions lead people to do terrible things.
“The Lottery” took place on June 27th, in a typical small American rural town. It was right before the harvest and the townspeople met in the square to conduct the annual lottery. The lottery has been going on for years before any of the townspeople were born and is the tradition. The head of each household is called up to draw a piece of paper from a box. When everyone has drawn, the folded......
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