Hi there. Does anyone know the theme for this story? What are methods are used by the writer to present/illustrate/enhance the theme? Thanks!
2007-01-27 12:55:27 · 5 answers · asked by tmackun135 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
this story is very morbid. the theme could be the desensitization of people, in this case, by tradition. the villagers are so keen on keeping with traditions that they do not even want to reconsider them even when obviously there's a flaw in the system. so every year i believe, they go about this "lottery" when in reality, the "winner" is actually the loser. and they don't see anything wrong with the practice, and that's what gives readers a sense of cold morbidity.
2007-01-27 19:17:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No way Jackson simply wanted to entertain. We are a species given to mob mentality - disgusting but true. Was "The Lottery written in the 1950's? Could be a comment on McCarthyism and the red scare. Good strory though. Scapegoats. Ancient rituals.
2016-05-24 07:11:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every year in a small town, everyone pick a rock out of a basket.
The one who pick the rock with an X on it their family next would have draw from the lottery basket. The family member who picked the
rock with X (young or old did not mater) would be STONED to death by the reaming people in the small town (village). This was done because of Tradition. Nobody questioned WHY? It was a tradition from as far back as they could remember. So, it was done for honoring their ancestors as a good thing.
What is Good? If this was good to them or if everything is Good, how can you tell what Evil really is. You can only tell Good from Evil.
2007-01-27 13:05:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
The Lottery relates to the sociological conventions we undertake often, possibly even daily, without understanding the meaning of what we are doing.
Shirley Jackson takes an extreme (with death to the 'winner') and uses it to evoke the questions of "Why?" The character has to die and neither she, nor the neighbors she loves and trusts, understands the history or necessity of this act. Like lemmings they carry out the tradition- even when they loose a valued member of their society.
2007-01-27 13:22:15 · answer #4 · answered by starlamalone 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
one person in the town wins the lottery and dies.
so sad, but it was excepted by the people in the village as necessary to continue till the next year. not much sympathy for the lottery "winner"
2007-01-27 13:47:39 · answer #5 · answered by Wicked 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋