THE LOTTERY

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THE LOTTERY

• Group 2
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Shirley Jackson

• Personal Profile
• Her Interest
• About Writing
• The Lottery

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Historical Context

• Published in 1948
• Critics
• "I hoped by setting a particularly brutal ancient
  rite in the present and in my own village, to
  shock the story's readers with a graphic
  dramatization of the pointless violence and
  general humanity in their own lives."

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Plot Summary

• All the villagers start to gather in the square
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• Mr. Summers begin to read off the list of names
  after he make sure everyone is here
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• Every house hold draws a slip of paper and open
  it all at the same time
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• Bill Hutchinson gets the paper with a spot on it
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• Bill, Tessie, Bill Jr., Nancy, and Davy
• (The Hutchinsons) all have to draw again
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• Tessie got the marked paper
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• Tessie get stoned by all the villagers

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MAJOR THEME

• Society wrongfully picks up scapegoats to bear
  the sins of the community.
• The reluctance of people to reject outdated
  traditions, ideas, rules, laws, and practices.
• Following the crowd leads to disastrous
  consequences.

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HORRORS

• This horrible events seems to be their daily
  routing. (After stoning a woman, the people will
  go home to eat lunch or go back to work as if
  nothing out of the ordinary has happened.)
• The villagers do not excuse children from the
  lottery, and children take part in the stoning,
  even Tessies little Davy was included.

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HORRORS (continue)

• Mr. Hutchinson didnt plead for his wife. (He was
  actually the one who pulled the marked slip of
  paper out of her hand.)
• Nancy Hutchinson and her brother Bill laughed
  when they found their paper blank, knowing one of
  their parents was going to be stoned.

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SYMBOLS and NAMES

• The lottery
• ?They supposed to draw for a prize.
• Mrs. Delacroix
• ?Means of the cross in French, and she
  actually double-crosses Tessie
• (double-cross to betray)

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Church

• a high emphasis on religion
• irony of the lottery
• mindlessly following tradition
• good religions should be cherished
• bad religions should be trashed

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Reference to more issues

• Two themes about The Lottery
• -confinement of traditions
• -designating of scapegoats

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Confinement of traditions

• Confinement of tradition
• -people cling to an outdated tradition

Examples -Abolishment of Capital
Punishment -Discrimination of Homosexuality
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Abolishment of Capital Punishment

• Capital punishment
• -A long existed practice, but in recent years the
  appeal to abolish it emerged and grew stronger.

-were used to having capital punishment, so we
wouldnt like to make any change on it. -the
society is confined to the tradition of carrying
out capital punishment.
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Discrimination of Homosexuality

• Although the same-sex love is now gradually
  becoming acceptable to the society, theres still
  one forth of students having ever been looking
  down. (HK news)

In tradition, the society is supposed to be
heterosexual, therefore it tends to have
heterosexism.
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Designating of scapegoats

• Designating of scapegoats
• -the society wrongfully finds victims to bear
• undeserved punishment.

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Designating of scapegoats

• Event of the little girl Chiu
• -A significant example of how the society
  wrongfully designates scapegoats to bear
  undeserved punishment.
• -Eager to find out the criminal to bear the sins,
  and therefore they could get rid of scare and
  guilt.
• -In fact, none ought to bear the entire sins.
• -The whole society had its blame.
• -It was everyone in the society that caused this
  event to happen.

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Conclusion and Reflection

• We may follow religions, superstitions, medical
  systems, policies, and anything the public do
  blindly
• Justice

Conscience and sense cant be overemphasized
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SHORT VIDEO

• The Lottery
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vtN5V8cQ2DAk

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Thank you for your listening