Assignment on The Lottery
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Added on 2019-10-18
Assignment on The Lottery
Added on 2019-10-18
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1JenkinsTHE LOTTERYDemetrius Jenkins Sr. Professor Jessica Harkness 201801 English 101_OL1 6 August 2017Characters Showing Two Sides of HumanityIntroductionThe Lottery written and composed by Shirley Jackson depicts significance of ignoring anddisapproving the traditions which are blindly ad ignorantly followed by the people without anyaim or purpose. It is portrayed by Shirley through senseless murders without any cause which arepartaken by the villagers every years. The story also represents the world which is developed byher that completely resembles to the world where we live, i.e. a world where people arefollowing and continuing the ritualized customs and traditions such as acting and practicing highhostility with each other and decorating the Christmas trees (Jackson 25).Thesis StatementThe Lottery written by Shirley Jackson portrays a dynamic and complex world which is full ofIronic events, ugly truths, customized and rigid traditions that are under the veil of evil realityabout people as they blindly and ignorantly follow the tradition. In this paper we will detail aboutthe notion of people who have faith in a “tradition” but is misapprehending it as if they do notknow about the point of continuing with the lottery. The main thesis point in this paper is: Peopleare blindly and ignorantly following the tradition which leads to series of murders.
2JenkinsTHE LOTTERYArgumentShirley Jackson has put up various intriguing elements in her story for example with her maincharacters in the story for any reader to consider it with deep details. Firstly the characters likeGraves and Summers are the two men in the story who are involved to run the lottery (Tutas 46).Summer is portrayed as a happy and jovial person but he is also keeps the control and monitorsthe box which contains the slips of paper having dot of death over it. Graves, in the story, isknown to be right hand and significant partner of summers but is less talkative as compared tosummers. Still he remains in the minds of the readers as he gets himself introduced in the story.Though the character does not have enough dialogue and conversation part in the story, Graves isinevitable similar to the death which awaits the “Lottery’s Winner”. Another name in the storywhich is quite less clear but plays a significant role is Dickey Delacroix that comes up in thestarting of story (Nebeker 100). The most interesting and ironic thing regarding DickeyDelacroix is that villagers utter the name as Dellacroy which is specifically intriguing asDelacroix in French means “Cross” that implies a religious belief (Nebeker 100). It representsthat it is a type of religion which is incorrectly used because of misunderstanding. In the climaxof story, it was written that “Mrs. Dellacroy had chosen a stone so big that she used both thehands to pick it up.” This statement showed that Dellacroy (his name being misrepresented) iscarrying a big stone that yielded highest damage to kill.
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