Mankind has created a world in which he raised questions; unanswerable questions. Mankind feared the unknown, and feared questioning it, and instead he created answers to comfort him, but the answers while usually are stupid and very disturbing, they are rarely questioned and they are usually followed blindly
In the short story “The Lottery,” (78) Shirley Jackson puts the phenomenon into words. The story talks about a village that practiced a disturbing tradition which seemed like an answer to a question that their ancestor couldn’t reasonably resolve. The question one could assume would be how would we bring prosperity to the village?
The author used a happy, warm setting to throw the readers off. The story develops happily, taking the reader along for this traditional annual lottery that they have in their little town. The setting shows happiness that makes the reader think th
The lottery is usually something that people wish they could win, because winning the lottery usually means wealth and happiness, but the village which Shirley Jackson created changed the meaning of the lottery. The village’s yearly lottery was held in the middle of the village. Every summer the people of the village gather in anticipation of who will be the “winner”. The “chosen one” was probably believed to be the one person who is holding back luck and prosperity from the village, and killing him or her was believed to bring prosperity and luck back to the village. In the story a man talks about the idea of giving up the lottery. “over in the north village they’re talking of giving up the lottery”(81) but in ignorance to the comment Old Man Warner who one could easily assume to be the strongest man in the village economially replied by simply saying:
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