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Deadly Traditions
Title: Deadly Traditions
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 800 | Pages: 3.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Deadly Traditions
Deadly Traditions
In “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson’s unique writing sets the reader up for what will eventually result in disappointment. Jackson’s story portrays an average village with average citizens engaged in a deadly rite, the annual selection of a sacrificial victim of a public lottery. It is not until well along in the story do we suspect that the winner will be stoned to death by the rest of the villagers. Jackson reveals …showed first 75 words of 800 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 800 total…of a remedy. Forgotten traditions can also be extremely dangerous as Shirley Jackson points out in her short story. The simple game of telephone proves that as a society, we are just like the villagers, forgetting the original words but continuing on as if the words we know are the original.
Work Cited
Jackson, Shirley, “The Lottery.” Literature and the Writing Process. Elizabeth
McMahan, Susan X Day, and Robert Funk. 5th ed. New Jersey: Prentice, 1999.
74-79.
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