Shirley Jackson, who was born in San Francisco, CA. Jackson grew up in the time of WWII. She didn’t have a close relationship with her mother, as she discovered that her parent were not expecting to have her. During her childhood years, social interactions were challenging for her, therefore, she spend much of her time writing stories and reading. Later on, she wrote The Lottery. Unfortunately, the story was writing during times in which brutality accepted, a time where massive amount of people were being murdered for no particular reason. Despite all the chaos, people who were not affected by this brutality, ignored the fact that it was still going on. This is reflected in the story, when Mr. Summers, the activities coordinator of the small village announced, “Well, now.. Guess we better get started, get this over with so’s we can go back to work”. The nature of the ritual is peaceful, however, the ritual ends up being extremely brutal. Much like the Holocaust, where an specific group of people were targeted and penalized with death for no reason whatsoever. Thus there was great suffering during the time of WWII, everyone else ignored the macabre massacre of millions of…