I liked the part when you discover that the lottery isn’t a lottery to win something but to lose your life. Hutchinson screamed: ”It isn’t fair, it isn’t right.” And then everybody was upon her. All of a sudden everybody is going to throw with stones to Mrs Hutchinson. Some children had already had taken stones so they hasn’t got to take stones. So her husband said: “Let’s finish quickly.” Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones. Finally everybody had been taken a paper and showed it each paper was blank accept one, the one with the black spot on it and it’s in Mrs Hutchinson. The postmaster will read the heads of the families in alphabetic way and they have to pick as much papers as the family is being with. There were going some minutes past, and then finally the lottery will begin. The box has been used every year but is getting old and some villagers want to having a new black box but the keeper of the black box wont it to get a new one or to build a new one because this was the box which was constructed when the fist people settled down to make the village here. When the postmaster puts a black box on the middle of the village square. Some children are picking up stones in one of the corners of the square and guarded it against the raids of the other boys. Everybody is going to gather around the village square to join the lottery. Somewhere in a village there is going to be a lottery. It’s a story to enjoy the reader of it, it’s not a story to learn something about it. The theme of the short story is life and death, because at the end one will probably die and the rest shall live.

The most important family is the Hutchinson family, because one of the family members won the Lottery. One of the important characters is wearing fades house dresses and a sweater. It’s a story told by the writer because you can not know in the story what some people think. I think It’s a drama story, because in the story someone is thrown by rocks.

The village square of the town is a very important place in the story because it’s the place were everybody came together for the Lottery. The whole story takes 21 minutes of your free time.

The story plays in a little town with only 300 villagers on June the 27th somewhere between 19. She wrote some other books like: The Haunting, Hosszú alkony, The lottery, Come Along with Me and Lizzie. She is born in San Francisco, her date of birth is 14 December 1916 and she died at 8 August 1965 in north Bennington. The Dutch translation of the title is de loterij I think it’s a good title because it’s about a lottery and the winner gets a lot of stones to his or hers head thrown Boekverslag : Shirley Jackson - The Lotteryĭe taal ervan is Engels en het aantal woorden bedraagt 574 woorden.

Come along with me by shirley jackson