Good Life

Good Life

Monday, July 20, 2009

Jackson, Shirley. "The Lottery." The New Yorker. 1948.


This story is about a town, that every year once a year,has this lottery where the winner gets stoned to death. The way the story is narrated easily allow you to guess the outcome of the lottery game. Some characters are Mrs. Hutchinson, Mr. Summers, Mrs. Graves, Mrs. Dunbar, and the children.The themes are luck, fate, shame, life, bad vs. good, apathy.

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