https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm After you read "The Lottery," post your initial reaction to the story's ending. How did you feel after reading the short story? Were you surprised, or did you predict the story's end? What was the mood of the story? What text does this story remind you of? Comment on ONE of your classmate's posts. en-us 2018-02-27 13:37:45 UTC 2025-11-22 18:56:56 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/prod/80264060/cdf38ae2d21ee13c036196e76c1eb262/Backback.png https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236667673 The story did slightly suprised me but I did think someone was going to die or get hurt. The title threw off my thinking by the name of it. The story did suprise me by the fact that they kill someone yearly. The mood of the story was cheerful at some small times but scary and ominous the rest of the time. I felt suprised at the end by how the villagers acted towards a friend. ]]> 2018-02-28 20:39:59 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236667673 https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236667843

the story made me kind of angry because of the way mr.summers treats the people in his village. everybody was so nervous and i didn’t really understand why. it’s just a lottery but i wouldn’t have expected for someone to be stoned at the end. the mood of the story most of the time was saddening. the tone was very serious sometimes playful. 

]]> 2018-02-28 20:40:25 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236667843 https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236667925 I expected someone to die but I didn’t think it would mrs. Hutchinson. I thought the people would revolt against mr.summers. ]]> 2018-02-28 20:40:36 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236667925 https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236667930 In the beginning, the way the light-hearted story went along, I thought that the lottery was a good thing and the townspeople would benefit from it. By about the middle of the story I began to change my mind about the lottery. The townspeople began to act very nervous at the thought of the lottery, and appeared to be frightened of it. It was no surprise that someone was killed in the end. The only thing that I found odd was that Mrs. Hutchinson was the one to recieve the cruel punishment.]]> 2018-02-28 20:40:37 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236667930 https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236668519 I expected it because it wasn’t normal and the people were anxious ]]> 2018-02-28 20:41:57 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236668519 https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236668567 I expected someone to die but didn’t expect it to be Mrs. Hutchinson. It was a shocking ending. I was surprised to read that it was Mrs. Hutchinson who died. It had a cheerful beginning until it went in to describe the people in the village and how anxious they became. The mood changed from cheerful to anxious. ]]> 2018-02-28 20:42:04 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236668567 https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236668692 With Mrs. Hutchinson being stoned, I thought it was unfair that Mr. Summers was in charge of the lottery and he didn’t treat the village respectfully. To pull your name out of a box and me killed is just plane stupid]]> 2018-02-28 20:42:22 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236668692 https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236668834 The Lottery was a small book but it wanted to tell you something and it achieves that. This book is post wwII era and into the Cold War(1948) and I feel is influenced by these. It’s trying to tell you that a luck of the draw can be bad and that being forced to something is bad. Like the drafts for wwII only able bodied men, like in the book in a way, we’re selected for this drawing. In a way with Mrs. Hutchinson is the one who “loses” for taking this event so lightly when you never know who will be chosen. This story is telling just blindly following past traditions might be best left in the past.]]> 2018-02-28 20:42:37 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236668834 https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236668946 I was shocked by the ending and was surprised when the girl was stoned. after the story, in was confused as to what happened until i realized that the girl was stoned. I was not expecting this ending to happen but i was not surprised because i expected something worse to happen. The mood of the story was serious.

]]> 2018-02-28 20:42:51 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236668946 https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236669073 The story made me feel uneasy for the most part, because of the tone the writer used. The way their writing composed a way to build a sense of suspense was quite interesting at the same time.]]> 2018-02-28 20:43:11 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236669073 https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236669447 I was really surprised at the end because I thought someone would die, but I wasn't expecting it to be Mrs. Hutchinson.]]> 2018-02-28 20:43:55 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236669447 https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236669610 the story made me upset because of the brutality. I was expecting someone to die because of the buildup, but I wasn't expecting the pile of rocks, collected by the children, would be used.]]> 2018-02-28 20:44:20 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236669610 https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236669939 2018-02-28 20:44:54 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236669939 https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236670006 I thought that the lottery was a draft for the war. That is why everybody was so nervous to get picked and it was mostly the head of the family, and the head of the family is mainly a man except one family which had a female as the head of the family. She was the head of the family because the father was injured, which also goes toward the reasoning to why he couldn’t attend to the possible draft.

]]> 2018-02-28 20:45:04 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236670006 https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236670127 I was shocked after the ending. There was a variety of moods during the story. ]]> 2018-02-28 20:45:19 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236670127 https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236670200 I thought someone would have died, but i did not think it was going to be a stoned death. More likely i thought the lottery would have a chance of winning stuff but also have a chance of getting something bad. Also I think this is irony because Mrs. Hutinsins was super happy and didnt care but when she got called she was supper nervous even trying to get her kids in to. which is sad for being a mother.]]> 2018-02-28 20:45:29 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236670200 https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236670386 I thought the lottery would end with a huge sum of money being given to the winner, and then the citizens be full of anger and greed, which would end with the winner being killed by Mr.Summers. I thought the ending was very shocking, but i liked it because it was suspenseful.]]> 2018-02-28 20:45:52 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236670386 https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236670615 I wasn't expecting this ending to happen. I thought it would be something serious. The author used a very serious tone, and the mood was very serious. Personally, i didn't like the story that much, and i felt there could've been less dialogue.]]> 2018-02-28 20:46:22 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236670615 https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236670652 I was very surprised. I thought something bad was going to happen in the lottery and also good, but I didn't expect something this bad to happen.]]> 2018-02-28 20:46:29 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236670652 https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236670783 I was surprised with the ending because I expected the ending to have a more modern tradition. I didn't realize that a tradition that old and that horrible was going to be practiced. ]]> 2018-02-28 20:46:44 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236670783 https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236671188 I was very surprised by the ending; I predicted that Mrs. Hutchinson would win, but I expected her to win something good. I didn't expect anybody to die. The mood was very anxious and dark at some points.]]> 2018-02-28 20:47:39 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236671188 https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236671211 I thought that the story had a very weird and confusing ending to it. I was confused as to why the loser was stoned to death and why they were stoned to death. There was no explanation as to why the loser of the lottery was stoned to death by the other villagers, it just happened. I also thought that the lottery would end up with a winner with a set amount of money and the loser will lose money or land.]]> 2018-02-28 20:47:44 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236671211 https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236672285 I thought that the story had a very grim ending. I didn't expect it. I thought that someone would get a large sum of money or land. I wasn't expecting anything bad too happen.]]> 2018-02-28 20:50:37 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236672285 https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236745031 I expected Mrs. Hutchinson to win because she seemed sketchy. I also predicted that the winner would get killed. I was sort of right. The brutality was not child-friendly and surprised me when I imagined the stoning.]]> 2018-03-01 01:46:06 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_pankey/ae8w19olqsnm/wish/236745031