https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq 5th Period en-us 2017-09-18 20:08:47 UTC 2017-09-18 21:28:56 UTC hello@padlet.com jsimmons28 https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188658398 Some critics insist that the story has an added symbolic dimension. What is Shirley Jackson trying to tell us about ourselves?]]> 2017-09-18 20:08:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188658398 jsimmons28 https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188658399 How many hints of the seriousness of the occasion can you find in the early parts of the story? From which characters do you get the best indication of what is to follow?]]> 2017-09-18 20:08:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188658399 jsimmons28 https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188658401 What is the significance of Tessie's final scream. "It isn't fair, it isn't right" at the conclusion of the story? What aspect of the lottery does she explicitly challenge and what aspect goes unquestioned?]]> 2017-09-18 20:08:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188658401 jsimmons28 https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188658402 What seems to be the original purpose of the lottery? What do you believe?]]> 2017-09-18 20:08:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188658402 jsimmons28 https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188658403 Why did Jackson choose common people for her characters?  What is the irony of the dialogue and casual tone of the story?


]]> 2017-09-18 20:08:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188658403 https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188674790 2017-09-18 21:05:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188674790 https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188675608 Shirley Jackson is telling us, through the story,  about how human kind is doing wrong in everyday life yet we fail to realize it. As seen in "The Lottery," the citizens murder someone often, as tradition, and don't care that they are taking someone's life.  "A stone hit her on the side of the head... then they were upon her" ( Jackson 18).]]> 2017-09-18 21:09:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188675608 https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188675613 It is important because she is standing against society, she is challenging the social norm. She challenges the purpose of the lottery and she is also challenging the group mentality. "You didn't give him time enough to take any paper he wanted. I saw you. It wasn't fair." (Jackson 13) She doesn't the challenge that the lottery shouldn't happen at all, she just doesn't like that she was the victim. "Get up there, Bill,' Mrs. Huthinson said, and the people near her laughed." (Jackson 11) ]]> 2017-09-18 21:09:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188675613 https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188675813 "Suddenly Tessie Hutchinson shouted to Mr. summers, "You didn't give him enough time to take any paper he wanted. I saw you. It wasn't fair" (Jackson 13). This phrase by Tessie hints seriousness.  Mr. Summers gives a number of directions to help us figure out the next sequence of events.]]> 2017-09-18 21:10:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188675813 https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188675963 2017-09-18 21:11:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188675963 https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188676023 "Seventy-seventh year I been in the lottery"(Jackson 12). Shirley Jackson is trying to tell us that they have been participating in the lottery for a while that now, it has become a tradition. They don't see it as murdering, like us, because they are used to it. Jackson is telling us that we see things differently.]]> 2017-09-18 21:11:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188676023 https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188676035 The aspect of the lottery that she challenges is the fairness.  " 'I tell you it wasn't fair. You didn't give him time enough to choose. Everybody saw that,'" (Jackson 15). She was okay with the lottery until her name was drawn, and it wasn't in her favor.]]> 2017-09-18 21:11:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188676035 https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188676157 Jackson chose common people for her characters because it makes it easier for people to relate to, and it gives the reader the feeling that it is taking place in the older times. The tone of the story, is that it is a normal day until the lottery starts "]]> 2017-09-18 21:12:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188676157 https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188676280 The original purpose of the lottery was a tradition that people continued to participate in. Evidence shown in the story is, " ' Seventy- seventh time year I been in the lottery,' Old Man Warner said as he went through the crowd " ( Jackson 13).]]> 2017-09-18 21:12:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jsimmons28/ymtyds8utkpq/wish/188676280