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Grotesque Images

Hunger Games

  • Throwing rocks
  • Tessie Hutchinson
  • Little Davy even partakes
  • Bill Hutchinson's indifference
  • Civilized brutality
  • Dehumanization
  • Modern day "The Lottery"
  • Choosing certain people who fight for their lives; Lottery is quick death with no fight.
  • More of a scare tactic to keep from rebellion; Lottery is traditional.
  • Hunger Games are more afraid to be chosen; Lottery is all for it until they are chosen.

Symbolism

Black box: -tradition itself

-outdated

Old Man Weaver: - blindly following tradition

- stuck in ways

Related Works

  • The Morning of June 28th
  • "The Lottery" Misinterpreted
  • Written after
  • "The Road Through the Wall"
  • "We have always lived in the castle"

Biography

In Conclusion:

"I hoped by setting a particularly brutal ancient right, in the present and in my own village to shock the stories readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity and in their own lives."

- Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson

Character Analysis

  • Born December 14, 1916 and passed away on August 8, 1965 of unexpected heart failure.
  • Wrote "The Lottery," "The Haunting of Hill House," "The Road Through the Wall," among other books and short stories.
  • "The Haunting of Hill House" was regarded by Steven King as one of the most important horror novels of the 20th Century.

Tessie Hutchinson: - Wife of Bill

- Mother of 3

- Loser of Lottery

Old Man Warner: - Oldest man in village

- This is his 77th Lottery

Mr. Summers: - Conducts the Lottery

- Childless Coal Business Owner

Bill Hutchinson: - Husband of Tessie

- 1st draws marked paper

- 2nd draws blank paper

Mr. Harry Graves: - Postmaster

- helps prepare/assists with Lottery

The Lottery

By; Shirley Jackson

Summary

  • Gather in town square
  • Tessie shows up late
  • Call out role
  • The men get chosen alphabetically
  • Unfold the papers
  • Bill Hutchinson family is chosen
  • Family chooses papers
  • Tess gets chosen
  • Freaks, says its unfair
  • Then, get stoned to death
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