The Lottery CaseEssay Preview: The Lottery CaseReport this essayThe LotteryIn her story “The Lottery”, Shirley Jackson writes about a village that partakes in a lottery event. Every family that is part of this small village draws his/her name in a black box, but there is only one person who gets picked and is therefore is “the lottery winner”. The day of the event you will find children of all ages rushing after school to gather up stones. Once the event starts the lottery winner is chosen and will then be stoned to death by the whole village, including his/her family, by the stones that were gathered by the young children.
Every morning on June 27th the village, from young to old, has a gathering by the post office and the bank at around ten oclock, the place where the villagers met is known as the square. On this day the children, especially, start collecting a large number of stones and pile them up together in a corner. The men began to gather first, inspecting their children and talking amongst each other about common things. The women later start showing up and walk towards their husbands greeting one another with smiles on their faces. Once the whole family is gathered all they could do is wait patiently for every family to gather up and for the speaker to begin.
While all this is happening Mr. Summers, the man that runs the local business and is the speaker of the lottery event, rushes over to the stage with a little black box and along follows Mr. Grave, the postmaster, carrying a three-legged stool. The stool is placed in the center of the stage and on top goes the black box that is all beat up; it is hardly black at all anymore. It has been said that the black box that is now standing on the stage was made with pieces from the previous one, the one that had be originally made since the first people settled down to make the village here. With that said, every time that Mr. Summers suggested buying a new box the villagers would ignore him because who wants to break tradition?
In reality, the stage was in fact a place to entertain the children. There were no tables to accommodate all of that, so the students, who were often students and had only one or two jobs at the time of the lottery, were able to watch the students play, and watch children play. One of the kids who was present at the final run of the game had his face painted in some sort of green with one of the students who had been playing with him, and who also sat in front of the stage. He said that if some of his classmates started playing they were supposed to let him sit up, and that he would just leave them here. But what he wanted was for the children to watch so they could catch up with his other friends.
Not to mention the fact that you can imagine the excitement for the stage of the “prelude”; you can imagine kids getting up from the back, and being led in by Mr. Gaddo and going to the entrance with a black box. To put it simply. The old-school stage was where the students did their stage work. They brought their own costumes for the stage, and, having seen the black box, they could make use of it in the game. They wore costumes or made costumes for the stage, which in turn brought on special activities for the children. We also talked about, for example, the time of play of children in the school. As we said last summer, the children enjoyed using puppets, and playing with and about the costumes they put on. A play is now in a stage, and now of course it can be made in one of two ways—one with hands made with a different kind of wood or with one person doing the work of making the puppets—and in either case the children are given a certain amount of time with which to enjoy their own experience of the stage. They have other duties for the time, and sometimes they can do just as well too. If some of the other students have their homework done for them, when they get home we will watch the kids play. Once they reach home it must leave all of the school and must go to the next class to complete it, and at last the third of them will be ready to go to the next class. In the third class they still have to complete it. But in the eighth they have to write all of the notes they need to complete the task, and then there will be a test, which cannot be done until they have completed the task, which means they have to finish it. At the end of the eighth, in both class as well as in the eighth-graders, all of them have completed it. And then it is up to the fifth teacher, and all kids are told to finish it when the tenth
In reality, the stage was in fact a place to entertain the children. There were no tables to accommodate all of that, so the students, who were often students and had only one or two jobs at the time of the lottery, were able to watch the students play, and watch children play. One of the kids who was present at the final run of the game had his face painted in some sort of green with one of the students who had been playing with him, and who also sat in front of the stage. He said that if some of his classmates started playing they were supposed to let him sit up, and that he would just leave them here. But what he wanted was for the children to watch so they could catch up with his other friends.
Not to mention the fact that you can imagine the excitement for the stage of the “prelude”; you can imagine kids getting up from the back, and being led in by Mr. Gaddo and going to the entrance with a black box. To put it simply. The old-school stage was where the students did their stage work. They brought their own costumes for the stage, and, having seen the black box, they could make use of it in the game. They wore costumes or made costumes for the stage, which in turn brought on special activities for the children. We also talked about, for example, the time of play of children in the school. As we said last summer, the children enjoyed using puppets, and playing with and about the costumes they put on. A play is now in a stage, and now of course it can be made in one of two ways—one with hands made with a different kind of wood or with one person doing the work of making the puppets—and in either case the children are given a certain amount of time with which to enjoy their own experience of the stage. They have other duties for the time, and sometimes they can do just as well too. If some of the other students have their homework done for them, when they get home we will watch the kids play. Once they reach home it must leave all of the school and must go to the next class to complete it, and at last the third of them will be ready to go to the next class. In the third class they still have to complete it. But in the eighth they have to write all of the notes they need to complete the task, and then there will be a test, which cannot be done until they have completed the task, which means they have to finish it. At the end of the eighth, in both class as well as in the eighth-graders, all of them have completed it. And then it is up to the fifth teacher, and all kids are told to finish it when the tenth
Although many traditions were broken by now the black box was still a very important one and no one dared to replace it. The purpose of the little black box is to have all the villagers name in there, every member of the family has to write his/her name on a piece of paper and in to the box. That is how Mr. Summers determines who the lottery winner will be. There are times when a member of the family would draw his/her name twice so another member of the family will not have to put his/her name in the black box to avoid from being the lottery winner. A son or daughter would most likely be the one to draw his/her name twice for the parent; this was looked as a good gesture.
As soon as Mr. Summers was ready to begin with his speech Mrs. Hutchinson, came hastily through the direction of the square. Mrs. Delacroix reminded her that she had forgot what day it is today and Mrs. Hutchinson laughed and told her that she looked outside her window and saw that her kids were no longer outside playing