Wednesday, February 12, 2014

The Lottery

The lottery is a short story written by Shirley Jackson in 1948. In the morning of June 27th, Usually in some places there will be held a lottery for farmers in the villagers in the town hall. There were fore shadowing of something in the future will happen. Little children are collecting pebbles for the lottery. One of the villagers in the village, Bill Hutchinson won the lottery for the family. Bill Hutchinson is the head of the Hutchinson family so that all of the Hutchinson family will take the paper from the big black box. One of the Hutchinson Family which is Tessie gets the paper with the black spot on it. The other villagers and also the Hutchinson Family stoned Tessie to death because it's the traditional beliefs in the village that every year one villager will be a sacrifice to their god for a harvest of Corn

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