SHIRLEY JACKSON
Date Submitted: 06/08/2001 04:25:12
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 3 pages (906 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 3 pages (906 words)
Donte’ Sims
SHIRLEY JACKSON
Why would a civilized and peaceful town would ever suggest the horrifying acts of violence can take place anywhere at anytime and the most ordinary people can commit them. Jackson's fiction is noted for exploring incongruities in everyday life, and “The Lottery”, perhaps her most exemplary work in this respect, examines humanity's capacity for evil within a contemporary, familiar, American setting. Noting that the story’s characters, physical environment, and even …
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…kids.
WORKS CITED
“The Lottery”
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Wilson, Kathleen “The Lottery”
Short stories for kids, vol.1
Ed. Kathleen Wilson.
Detroit, Mi: Gale, 1988 139-154
Jackson, Shirley “The Lottery”
The Lottery
The New Yorker 28 June 1948 292
Oehlschlaeger, Fritz “The Lottery”
Short stories for kids, vol.1
Ed. Kathleen Wilson.
Detroit, Mi: Gale, 1988 148-153
Hicks, Jennifer “The Lottery”
Short stories for kids, vol.1
Ed. Kathleen Wilson.
Detroit, Mi: Gale, 1988 148-153
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