Indholdsfortegnelse
1. Were you surprised by the ending of the story? If not, at what point did you know what was going to happen? How does Jackson foreshadow the ending? Conversely, how does Jackson lull us into thinking that this is just an ordinary story with an ordinary town?
2. In what way does the setting affect the story? Does it make you more or less likely to anticipate the ending?
3. Why has Jackson chosen common people for her characters? Could she have chosen characters from other levels of sophistication with the same effect?
4. Make a list of the characters and try to make a characterization of them Mr. Summers:
5. Is it important that the original paraphernalia for the lottery had been lost? What do you suppose the original ceremony was like? Why have some of the villages given up this practice? Why hasn't this one?
6. What is the significance of Tessie's final scream, "It isn't fair, it isn't right"?
9. Some critics insist that the story has an added symbolic meaning. Do you agree? If so, what is Shirley Jackson trying to tell us about ourselves? (Hint: Consider that the story was published in 1948 after WW2 and during the hight of the rise of Communism and the Soviet Union)
8. What are the major themes of the story?
7. What point of view does Jackson use in “The Lottery”? What effect does it have to use that point of view? Would the story be different if we, for instance, saw things from Tessie’s point of view?
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Not it’s not that important because they got the black box that’s also been made out of some of the pieces from the old original paraphernalia.
But we can’t really imagine how the original ceremony was like, maybe it was a little bit more aggressive or a bigger punishment.
But the other villages probably given up the lottery because they don’t see it as a right thing. This village just do it because they think it’s an important thing to do because of the traditions, other villages has finally stopped this madness.
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