I really enjoyed this short story. I was really intrigued during the whole story as to what was going to be raffled off or what was going to be done or won at the lottery. They all seemed pretty excited and into the ritual of getting prepared for the lottery that it totally seemed like a happy and joyous event. The story kept you continuously on the edge of my seat waiting, waiting, and waiting, what was the lottery for.
It went into slight detail about how they prepared for it with the container that contained all the pieces of paper that had everybody’s name in town on a piece of paper. I thought it was kind of interesting to hear that they used to put their names on tree bark chips I think it was, until they started using pieces of paper. Anyway when it finally came down to the day and they held the initial drawing it was like, ok what does that family win? Then when the “man” of the family had to draw it was like ok what’s coming next? Well unfortunately the mom’s name was drawn, still the suspense what was won? When it finally got to the end not a lot of detail was given, except that she was surrounded by all of the town’s people even her family, and everybody began throwing rocks at her and stoning her. I just thought that was a horrible ending to the story but it sure was one heck of a surprise I’ll give it that. There was also the fact that they really had no basis for doing any of this except for that fact that their town had always done this in the past and nobody really wanted to change, so in there future this was but to return again next year..
The Essay on Short Story "The Lottery”
In this short story called “The Lottery”, on June 27th, in this pleasant village, the villagers came together for their annual ceremony they have every year. The lottery concentrates on the village and the day of their annual Lottery. Although , The Lottery is always hosted by Mr. Summer every year , the persistence of “The Lottery” is to ensure that the village has enough rain ...
