The short story "The Lottery," by Shirley Jackson, raises many questions towards the destructive rituals of mankind. Symbolism plays an important role throughout the whole story. The story takes a deeper look at human nature by displaying at least three typical attitudes of man while living and interacting in a society. These attitudes include man's unwillingness ... ritual because the harvest that is being sacrificed to is being grown in the summer. However, the harvest should be fine because another setting of the story tells that "the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was ric...

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• Grade Level: High School

... be some of the less radical traditions across cultures, especially when compared to the tradition of drawing a sacrifice to be stoned in Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery." Jackson presents a small town that has a yearly lottery on June 27th, that determines which one of its inhabitants will ... and discomfort that comes with changing what is custom through foolish and outdated traditions in order to keep morals and ethics intact. The story demonstrates that most notable flawed logic that Jackson demonstrates in "The Lottery" over time is that traditions get dilute, with ritual...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate