Essay on Shirley Jacksons The Lottery - Inhumanity Exposed

Inhumanity Exposed in The Lottery   The story entitled The Lottery, written by Shirley Jackson is an thought-provoking and shocking parable. The Lottery is set in a small village on a discipline summer day. Written in purpose third person point of view, The Lottery keeps the reader in unbelief as the story progresses.           The story begins June 27th on a shit and sunnyfull-summer day. From the very beginning, irony occurs in the story. The author describes the day as clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day the flowers were blossoming profusely and the shoot was richly green. To describe such a beautiful day when the completion is so ill fated, is very ironic. The villagers, all three hundred of them, win in the square. There is a feeling of excitement and relative normality as the populate talk of their everyday happenings. The lottery is conducted by Mr. Summers, as he is the one that directs the civic acti vities of the town. The night before the lottery, all of the families hand over their names placed in a black box. The day of the lottery, Mr. Summers has apiece head of family draw a slip of paper from the box. When each family has selected a slip, they all open the papers together. The Hutchinsons are the winners. The process then repeats scarce this time, ... ...lso to show the dark side of American society and what it is capable of. This is exchangeable to other points in history, such as slavery, the Salem witch trials, and the defunctness of the American Indians. All three of those examples involve inhumanity without the usual American apathy. Though inhumanity does exist, it is usually without active support. However in the examples mentioned before, people acted on their ordinarily latent barbarity. The Holocaust is another parallel to The Lottery. The forgetful genocide of the Jewish populace is very much similar to the absurdness of the lottery. In essence, The Lot tery, is a mirror of the human subconscious.