The Lottery
Eli, Max, Alexx
3rd Person Objective
The reason it is 3rd person objective is because we do not know the people's individual feelings throughout the story. We only know the dialogue and their actions.
Summary of The Lottery
The Lottery is about a town that had an old ritual to stone the person who wins "The Lottery," which is death . Mr. Summers counted the head of each family and gave them a slip of paper. One of those papers had a black dot and Mr. Hutchingson got it. Then his family had to draw again and his wife ended up getting stoned cause her paper had the black dot.
Our Favorite Characters
Mr. Summers
Mr. Summers is the Commissioner of the lottery. He also owns a coal business. He owns the black box. He is pretty old since he's been doing this for years. He has a lot of stretch marks on his face and he's wearing a white shirt with jeans.
Mr. Hutchinson
Bill Hutchinson is the unfortunate young man in this story. His tall muscular body started to tremble in fear, when he realized that he had drawn the paper with the black dot, putting his family in danger. But to his luck he was not the one chosen to be stoned to death, thou he was in shock as he saw Mrs. Hutchinson get stoned to her untimely death.
Mrs. Hutchinson
She is fairly old I'd she is about 50. She's wearing a orange jacket over a checkered button-up. She is the wife of Mr. Hutchinson. She is super scared when she figured out she had the black dot. She is also a sore loser as well as a complainer.
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Our Critique of the Book
Overall the book is amazing. The concept of the book is thrilling. Waiting to see who were to get chosen kept me on the edge of my seat. Then when you see what winning the lottery actually does and how all the villagers join in every year on this killing of a random person that everybody in the town knows on a personal level. I highly recommend this story to anybody who wants a intense read.
TRAILER - The Lottery (Shirley Jackson)
Book Cover
"Seems like there's no time at all between lotteries any more." Exaggeration
The box grew shabbier each year: Personification
"Clean forgot what day it was," she said to Mrs. Delacroix, who stood next to her, and they both laughed softly: Irony
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