Response For The Lottery By Shirley Jackson
The Lottery is a short story written by Shirley Jackson. This story takes place in a small town located in the US. This story happened on 27 June at10 am in the morning. It is a warm and bright day. It is a perfect day to celebrate the lottery, which is the huge annual ceremony for this town. All the citizen joins together in the town square to rejoice this event. The children are playing on the plaza and gathering the stones, they look exciting and anxiously. It seems to be a common celebration of the lottery. However, the reality is the winner of the lottery will not have a normal prize as the reads supposed to have. The author keeps the secret what the prize is and then she creates an environment suspense during whole this narrative story.
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The author creates a false impression to the readers, which means it will not happen as the readers expect. Additionally, it will also show an opposite feeling and meaning to the readers. For example, the lottery, this event happened on a warm and bright day. The author induces the reader believe this story is based on happiness, wealth, and joy because the lottery supposed to lead townsfolk win a prize and then it will bring people joyfulness. Moreover, this event happened annually, all the townsfolks join this event, no one will absent for any reasons. The children are running, playing on the ground and collecting stones. With all these details, it seems to be a happy event because all the townsfolks are anxious to attend. No until, Tessie Hutchinson screamed when his husband got the ticker. The question is why? After this scream, apparently the lottery is not like the reader expect to be. When the readers realize that the lottery has different …show more content…
Additionally, the foreshowing in this narrative story also provide to the reader an advice and hits to create the suspense of the story and what would happen to the next, but the author will not reveal the story and take out the tension that has in the story. For instance, the children collect the stones. In this point create an uncertain and advice because why the children are collecting the stone? Why they have to keep the stones so jealously? Why in the lottery event children need stones? Hence, it is giving a sign to the readers the stones will use for something more interesting later. The simple action that the children collect the stones, it is not simple at all. The children are scheming. They are preparing to murder brutally the winner without compassion. Another example is the women wear faded old clothes for this ceremony. It is unusual that women do not get ready to a festival, especially an event will tend all the town. At this point the author conveys to the reader that the inner feeling of the women is not joy, and also to expose the reader that it is not a happy event. The women of this town dresses like that perhaps intuitively they reject the lottery continue exiting in this town. In these examples the author clearly illustrates the danger that hid under the blindly following a tradition because the children are the
The author creates a false impression to the readers, which means it will not happen as the readers expect. Additionally, it will also show an opposite feeling and meaning to the readers. For example, the lottery, this event happened on a warm and bright day. The author induces the reader believe this story is based on happiness, wealth, and joy because the lottery supposed to lead townsfolk win a prize and then it will bring people joyfulness. Moreover, this event happened annually, all the townsfolks join this event, no one will absent for any reasons. The children are running, playing on the ground and collecting stones. With all these details, it seems to be a happy event because all the townsfolks are anxious to attend. No until, Tessie Hutchinson screamed when his husband got the ticker. The question is why? After this scream, apparently the lottery is not like the reader expect to be. When the readers realize that the lottery has different …show more content…
Additionally, the foreshowing in this narrative story also provide to the reader an advice and hits to create the suspense of the story and what would happen to the next, but the author will not reveal the story and take out the tension that has in the story. For instance, the children collect the stones. In this point create an uncertain and advice because why the children are collecting the stone? Why they have to keep the stones so jealously? Why in the lottery event children need stones? Hence, it is giving a sign to the readers the stones will use for something more interesting later. The simple action that the children collect the stones, it is not simple at all. The children are scheming. They are preparing to murder brutally the winner without compassion. Another example is the women wear faded old clothes for this ceremony. It is unusual that women do not get ready to a festival, especially an event will tend all the town. At this point the author conveys to the reader that the inner feeling of the women is not joy, and also to expose the reader that it is not a happy event. The women of this town dresses like that perhaps intuitively they reject the lottery continue exiting in this town. In these examples the author clearly illustrates the danger that hid under the blindly following a tradition because the children are the