Summary of The Lottery

The short story that this article covers is Shirley Jackson 's lottery. It first appeared in New Yorker on June 26, 1948. It is one of the most famous short stories in the history of American literature. This article is a summary of the story from my point of view. The lottery is a fictitious piece showing rebellion and integration, suggesting that the lottery is part of the ceremony. The author was born in 1919. She suffers from depression throughout her life.

Abstract Shirley Jackson's "Lottery" is held in about 300 small towns on a warm day in June explaining the town's annual activities. This is also evident in the surrounding villages. The children first arrived in the town square to participate in "noisy games". Some boys made "many stones" in one corner of the square. The gathering where they gathered was a lottery by Mr. Summers. The businessman, with his wife, had no children. Many of the traditional customs related to lottery seem to have disappeared over time, but Mr. Summers is still "doing a lot of things" before announcing the opening of the lottery. He has created a family list, householders and members. Mr. Graves of him and the postmaster put a note in the black box obsoleted the night before and used it as a lottery as long as Mr. Summers remembers it.

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Many aspects of the lottery have been forgotten for a long time. The original black box disappeared, singers acting as a lottery were ignored, and the salute of ceremonies changed with the passage of time. The only thing that lottery villagers have not forgotten or changed is the way to kill stones and unfortunate winners. "The villagers have forgotten the ritual and have lost the original black box, but do not forget to use stones, but the mountains of stones that the boys made earlier are ready.