The Lottery/ Short Story 1

This story wasn't an easy story to understand. I really didn't understand what the story was about until I read over it again. there weren't really that many main characters in this story. The three main characters to me were, Mr. Summers, Tessie Hutchinson, and Old Man Warner.

The Lottery was a gathering that a small town of 300 people had every year. every year whoever was the head of their household would come up and choose a slip of paper from a black box. whoever had the slip of paper with the black dot in the center of it, won the lottery. "Winning the Lottery", sounds like a good thing, but in this small town if you won the lottery you would have to get big rocks and stones thrown at you until you died.

Mr. Summers conducted the lottery this year. He also conducted alot of other clubs and programs throughout the town. Most of the people felt bad for him because his wife died, and he never had kids. He also had a chance to be apart of the Lottery.

Old Man Warner was the oldest man in town. He had been in the lottery for 77 years. He isn't the nicest man you will meet. He is all for the lottery. In the story he said, " A Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon."

Mrs. Hutchinson is the woman who won the lottery that year. At first her husband won, but she declared that they do it over. When the did it over she had the paper with the black dot on it. When she won, Old Man Warner quoted," Come on, Come on everyone!" Even her kids had to throw rocks at her.

In this story, I think that The Lottery is a sacrafice for good crops in the near future. The reason I think that is because of what Old Man Warner said in the story. I really don't like how they handled this situation. i really don't understand how people in this town go to these lotteries knowing what is going to happen.

Character Descriptions

Mrs. Hutchinson seemed like a sore loser. I knew she was when she said,"I tell you it wasn't fair. You didn't give him time enough to choose. Everybody saw that." I think that just because she wante to re-do it, that's the reason why she chose the black slip of paper.

Mr. Summers seemed like he didn't care much about what was going on. He knew what was going to happen, and he was in the front of the crowd joking with people. If I were in that situation, it wouldn't be a time for me to be joking. I really think that he is so used to the lotteries that it doesn't affect him anymore.

Old Man Warner is the oldest man in town. He is a kind of bitter man. in the strory Mr. Adams told Mr. Warner that they were giving up the lottery in the North Village, and Mr. Warner called them a "pack of crazy fools."

Definitions:
simile- a figure of speech comparing two unlike things
metaphor-directly compares seemingly unrelated subjects
personification-gives an object or idea human traits and qualities
allusion-making casual reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event
hyperbole-a figure of speech in which statements are exaggerated
irony-using a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or normal meaning

a Metaphor in the story was when Mrs. Hutchinson craned her neck. This is a metaphor because, the two unlike things are "crane" and "neck."
a Hyperbole in the story is when Mrs. Delicroix said," it seems like there is no time between the lotteries anymore." This is a Hyperbole because there is a lottery every year, and there is alot of time between lotteries.
The whole story was ironic. you would never guess that whoever won the lottery was going to die. in the story Mr. Summers quoted,:let's finish quickly" and they all stoned Mrs. Hitchinson to death.