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Jennifer Walker Summary/Critique "The Lottery"The story, "The Lottery," features on a small town. The focus of the scene is on the tradition of the lottery held in the town each year. The author, Shirley Jackson, sets up the reader to believe something positive is going to happen. In fact, the lottery is a drawing that each family must participate in and at the end of the drawing, someone in the town, adult or child gets stoned to death. In this summary, I will show the control the town has over the children and I will also show the importance of the children in the town because of the fact that they are the ones who have to keep the tradition of the lottery going. The morning the lottery was to take place "the children assembled first," showing that they were already used to the lottery being apart of their lives. They see it as a day of celebration. They were so used to this, they showed pride in it by "selecting the smoothest and roundest stones" and putting them in their pockets for the stoning. The action of selecting rocks shows how much control the town has over the children. Th
Carrying on the tradition is important to the town although the purpose for "the ritual had been forgotten. As I have pointed out, the brainwashing of the children in the town is important. If the children are not taught that the lottery is a tradition and instead they are just told when they get older, chances are they will see it as wrong and protest every year it takes place or even move. e town has control over them the moment the parents decide the stoning is right. I feel this is part of the control, because there aren't many children that would see killing someone, every year on the same day because of tradition, as normal. Summers mixed up the papers for the drawing. This is shown by the fact that in the past they were not taught the purpose of the lottery. If this order of process continues the children will be even more open to the idea. This one factor may be the key to the fall of the lottery. The time of early summer (as well as morning) is also symbolic of renewal. If they are not allowed to question the tradition then they will not. I feel that the process of teaching the children has become weaker. Children are easily controlled, thus making it easier to carry on the tradition by teaching it to the children while they are still too young to make an objective decision on their own.
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