The Lottery” Although the writer gives ample clues throughout the story, the reader finds itself so shocked at the end of “The Lottery”. The reader feels the evil of this tradition held in their community. The Lottery is a yearly drawing of families in the community for the death by stoning would be the outcome. To the end with such a climactic feeling, the author uses several forms of literary devices in the setting that …showed first 75 words of 729 total…

…showed last 75 words of 729 total…and irony, Shirley Jackson creates a small rural community not unlike people live in today. Although she gives several hints of what the events to come, the ending is a great shock because we did not see any signs of violence and evil throughout the story until the end. In “The Lottery” the community is presented as a norm. This a community lived with an evil tradition which created a great fear in everyone t