The Lottery

A detailed Summary of The Lottery

The Lottery was a story of a town's old superstious traditon. The purpose of the lottery was to see who would be sacrificed so that the harvest would be plentiful. The town did whatever it could so that the harvest would be plentiful, even kill one of their loved ones. The character Mrs. Hutchinson was the "winner" of that years harvest and was stone to death by the town's people. Her own son even threw a couple of pebbles at her. Mrs. Hutchinson doesn't see the evil in the lottery until she realizes that she could be the "winner." It was just another social gathering to her until she was confronted with her ultimate fate.

At the beginning of the story, Mrs. Hutchinson's attitude acts like it's just like any other day. She knew that it was the day of the lottery, but it never crossed her mind that maybe she could die today. She walked in late and made small talk with her friends, then met with her family. It was any other

At the end of the story she had an epiphany. She realized she was going to die for an unfair reason. She says over and over again that it wasn't fair, what she was dying for. She starts to yell out to everyone that this was unfair but she was too late. Suddenly the social gathering wasn't as pleasant as it first was for her. The people she was making small talk with, her friends, and even her own son were picking up rocks and preparing to throw them at her.

Mrs. Hutchinson didn't say anything about the lottery until she realized that she was the victim. Maybe her words could have stopped the lottery before it happened again, but she chose to keep her thoughts to herself. She definantly would have found some people who felt the same way about the lottery. She could have possibly formed a group to protest the lottery, but by her just doing nothing about it, it led to her own demise. The message rang pretty clear in my ears

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Approximate Word count = 627
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Novels

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