Reflection For The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

The short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, in a seemingly normal town, everyone gathers together to conduct the annual traditional lottery. What is the lottery exactly? Well, you don’t truly discover the magnitude of its horror until the final passage. A lottery in the real world is typically a good thing but in this small town it’s anything but. Being the reader, I assumed people got money at the end. I feel that is something everyone was expecting. Throughout the entire book, things were happening that still did not give evidence as to what The Lottery was about. Certain thing throughout the story hint that something bad is going to happen, the people becoming nervous, the implication that the lottery is actually a purpose for regarding the future of the crops, and the piles of stones that the kids begin to gather. People in this village stone a person to death every year because were believed that sacrificing a life will produce better corn.

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The eeriest thing about this story is the whole mystery behind the lottery. At first no one truly knows when it actually started, why it ever started, only that it is a tradition performed every year. It is mentioned that other towns have dismissed the idea immediate as foolishness. With so many years of doing the tradition, the concept of not doing the lottery, of not doing a tradition, is enough to frighten the people in the village because they do not know the possible implications of not doing it will cause. What I also found interesting and chilling, was the way the people kept insisting that they should "get on with it" and "wrap it up". The way they said it was cold and suggested that they may have seen it as a mandatory thing, and an interruption to their day, but can't help but wonder if they also needed to partake in their part of the "prize". To get out whatever demons, they