The Lottery
By: Eli Werner, Dylan Anderson, Blake Bonifas
The POV is 3rd Person Objective
The reason we know that The Lottery is 3rd Person Objective point of view is because the narrator never said any thoughts of the characters. There were many characters but none of them had any thoughts.
Black Box
Picture of black box.
Black Box
Another One
Black Box
The last one
Literary Devices
Personification- The grass was richly green.
Personification- The black box grew shabbier each year.
Allusion- The guy broke his leg and the oldest guy in the family has to draw so the boy drew for him.
Summary
The story is about a village that has a annual drawing of the lottery. It is not always good though the person who gets the black dot on there slip of paper then has to have his whole family draw and see which one will get pelted with rocks.
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson (Summary) - Minute Book Report
Mrs. Hutchinson
She was the one that got pelted with rocks after she drew the ticket. Her husband was the one that drew the ticket in the first place.
Mr. Hutchinson
He was the one that drew the ticket. It was not very good for him because then his family would have to draw and see which one would get pelted.
Mr. Summers
He was the one that held the black box. He was the one that ran most of the lottery. He was wearing a white shirt with black pants. He was round faced and ran a coal business. Everyone was sad because he had no wife or kids.
We are Buddies!!!
We liked because there was a lot of action and a lot of stuff happening.