The Lottery Setting Analysis
The word Lottery has great meaning in everyone’s eyes. In the short story, “The Lottery”, the author did a great job keeping a suspenseful and inquiring meaning of what the village’s version of the lottery meant. In this short story the author wrote about a lottery that takes place in all villages. In this text the author focuses on one village. The author writes about the culture that goes into the lottery, the rules of the lottery, and the outcome in what happens whoever gets the chosen, which ends with the person being buried in a pile of stones. This year in the lottery, was un-traditional because it ended up being a woman, when every year it was a man that was picked. To keep the readers interested in finishing the story the author used an exceptional balance of setting, characterization, context, in what made this short story and interesting read. Initially, the setting was what started this reading off and the author went into adequate detail and element in the setting. In the
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The author went into depth with characterization about Mr. Summers, the guy who does the lottery draw. The author was talking about the rituals that they use to take place before the lottery but no longer do when he wrote …”Until now it was felt necessary only for the official to speak to each person approaching. Mr. Summers was very good at all of this, in his clean white shirt and blue jeans, with one hand resting carelessly on the black box, he seemed very proper and important as he talked interminably to Mr. Graves and the Martins.” By the author going into agreeable detail with characterization about Mr. Summers it gives the reader the atmosphere of the importance of the lottery. Which meant that not just anyone could just draw the lottery, it took a certain person and this person had class and intelligence. By this, it gives the reader a hint something important happens when the draw takes
The author went into depth with characterization about Mr. Summers, the guy who does the lottery draw. The author was talking about the rituals that they use to take place before the lottery but no longer do when he wrote …”Until now it was felt necessary only for the official to speak to each person approaching. Mr. Summers was very good at all of this, in his clean white shirt and blue jeans, with one hand resting carelessly on the black box, he seemed very proper and important as he talked interminably to Mr. Graves and the Martins.” By the author going into agreeable detail with characterization about Mr. Summers it gives the reader the atmosphere of the importance of the lottery. Which meant that not just anyone could just draw the lottery, it took a certain person and this person had class and intelligence. By this, it gives the reader a hint something important happens when the draw takes