The Lottery
By: Elias Dorsey
Authors Note: This piece will be
analyzing the irony and symbolism in the short story The Lottery by
Shirley Jackson. Enjoy.
What
would you do if you were won the lottery? Would you be excited? Would you be
afraid that someone would try to extort the reward money out of you? In the
short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, the lottery is a little
different. The rules changed in such a way, that if you win you die. You
proceed then by stepping into a circle of people and getting stones and rocks
thrown at you until you die. This story has a lot of symbolism and irony
throughout it, and I have analyzed it.
For
instance, some symbolism I have noticed is, for one, the black box that the
lottery drawing man brings out at one point in the story. It symbolizes the imminent
death. Also it symbolizes the sadness
that follows after your family gets picked from the black box. Tessie being
late symbolizes and foreshadows that she might be the first one to die.
Nevertheless, later in the story she dies first. How Ironic.
I like your hook statement. But, there are some words that could be taken out to make the sentence actually be a sentence. Other than that, it was a nice piece.
ReplyDeleteThis is good,, but you have extra sentences that you do not need in this piece, for example "How ironic is that huh?" otherwise it was a good piece.
ReplyDeleteI thought this was a really nice piece and you organization was really well planned out, but you have some extra words and sentences that you don't need in there. Overall it was a really nice piece. Nice Job!!!
ReplyDeleteI love your description of the story and supporting details added to back up your evidence, well done Eli!
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