The Treasure Of Lemon Brown 'And The Lottery'
In literature authors use literary elements to enhance their stories. Both “The Treasure of Lemon Brown”, by Walter Dean Myers, and “The Lottery”, by Shirley Jackson, use literary elements to enhance their stories. In “The Treasure of Lemon Brown,” Theme is used to create a message encrypted into the story. In “The Lottery” foreshadowing is used to make it seem as if you should have anticipated the ending. This helps to form a more unique style for each story.
In “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” Theme is used to create a point within the story. In this story, the protagonist, Greg, wants to play basketball but his father won’t let him because his grades are not good enough, he is greeted with a lecture by his father when he comes home. To avoid …show more content…
In “The Lottery” there is a town that at first seems normal, but then when they conduct their yearly lottery it is revealed that they stone the winner to death. Foreshadowing is when there are pieces of text in the story hinting at the ending “The Lottery” subtly uses this technique several times. When the children are playing outside before the lottery it seemed as if it was a normal day but it’s stated that “Bobby Martin has already stuffed his pockets full of stones.”(Jackson 1 ) This seems a little unusual considering kids don’t usually stuff their pockets with stones, so this hints that they may be using stones at some point during the lottery. Secondly when they are all standing waiting for the lottery to start it states “They stood together away from the pile of stones in the corner.” (Jackson 1) This is another hint that they will be using the stones because even the adults seemed strange around them. They did not even seem comfortable standing near the stones. Finally as they are starting the lottery the crowd gets silent and nervous. The author uses foreshadowing with certain words and phrases here to change the mood of this story such as “Quiet. Wetting their lips. Not looking”. (Jackson 3) These words create an unpleasant mood that is present for the rest of the story. This change in mood helps make then ending seem as if it should be more
In “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” Theme is used to create a point within the story. In this story, the protagonist, Greg, wants to play basketball but his father won’t let him because his grades are not good enough, he is greeted with a lecture by his father when he comes home. To avoid …show more content…
In “The Lottery” there is a town that at first seems normal, but then when they conduct their yearly lottery it is revealed that they stone the winner to death. Foreshadowing is when there are pieces of text in the story hinting at the ending “The Lottery” subtly uses this technique several times. When the children are playing outside before the lottery it seemed as if it was a normal day but it’s stated that “Bobby Martin has already stuffed his pockets full of stones.”(Jackson 1 ) This seems a little unusual considering kids don’t usually stuff their pockets with stones, so this hints that they may be using stones at some point during the lottery. Secondly when they are all standing waiting for the lottery to start it states “They stood together away from the pile of stones in the corner.” (Jackson 1) This is another hint that they will be using the stones because even the adults seemed strange around them. They did not even seem comfortable standing near the stones. Finally as they are starting the lottery the crowd gets silent and nervous. The author uses foreshadowing with certain words and phrases here to change the mood of this story such as “Quiet. Wetting their lips. Not looking”. (Jackson 3) These words create an unpleasant mood that is present for the rest of the story. This change in mood helps make then ending seem as if it should be more