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Me have homework assignment on this

who eals is here in 2024, listening to this for school 😅

My favourite ASMR to fall asleep to😊

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Tfw South Park has lead me to so much good literature and media

Freshman lit anyone? 😐

Homework 2023

Here for homework lol

The most boring short story ever

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As a retired teacher. I have read and taught this story over the years. I can give a few insights. This story depicts an event that has been repeated probably millions of times in human history. It is about ritual and tradition followed to its extreme -- human sacrifice. Human sacrifice has been done in all cultures and at most times during history. The horror is created by setting human sacrifice down in a modern small town. It makes what happens to the characters more relatable. It's no longer something you read about the Aztecs doing. Suddenly it's people who could be your neighbors and friends. That is what makes it horrifying. And it is also about blind adherence to tradition and about how easily a crowd can turn into a mob. Those are all generalities, but if they point some student in the right direction, them I'm good.

I am 37 and am here just because Shirley Jackson was a mastermind and far ahead of her time. I can only imagine what people thought reading this in 1948! But I see most of the commenters are teens here for homework and now I'm upset because I would have loved to had this as an assignment in HS. I read 235 books my Junior year and never came across this. Never came across her until I was an adult. This story hopefully opens some of their eyes to the world we live in. Don't just take it for what it is. Think about all of the ritualistic and animalistic tendencies we have and do daily thoughtlessly. How self preservation is always all that ever matters. Tessie didn't want the end the lottery. In fact, she was happy and enjoying it and running late as if she showed up to a party a few min behind. She only cared when it was her household selected. Even then, she didn't want it to end, she just wanted it to not be her. The way her kids laughed and sighed with relief knowing it wasnt any of them but still were fully aware it was one of their parents. Making the children participate in this, anticipate actually from how they were there gathering stones at the beginning. It's what we still do today. Tik tok and Instagram, we shove it all in our children's faces and only have a problem when it finally brings terror to our own front door. I hope some of you take it for more than just face value. And then go read some of her other works because she truly was a genius in her field!

need this for english day storytelling!!!!

Had a fight with my drama teacher in my sophomore year in HS, 1972. She wanted us to portray the townsfolk as backwards, hayseed, hillbillies. I asked her if she had even read Ms Jackson's story. Teacher took a work of monumental social impact & turned it into meaningless trash. She also trashed my thoughts of a drama career but, that's on me.

I got this for homework and the booklet gave to me is like a print out of the bible it’s so thick

The fact that this is also being assigned as a college literary analysis assignment is crazy because even middle schoolers are doing this

Bro since we are all here for hw can someone take one for the team and summarize it in the comments

Can someone please help me on this question “do you want to be part of the lottery? And why?"

i remember this happening back in 08

Grade 9 student be like :

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What is the conflict?

We have to write an essay on this story 😭😭😭

Thank you Cumtown. I would have never discovered this piece of art without you.

I'm here because I love disturbing short stories with a lesson.

Lol same, but I prefer to listen to it

Who is here because of homework

I gotta write a 3 page essay on this SHORT STORY 😩

thank you! I used this audio to harmonize you ajajaaj

I just came to check out this story and there are a bunch of kids in the comments having to analyse it for homework so I'm just gonna leave my own analysis of the text here and maybe it'll help a future English student. I'll write it in a Q&A format. What is the general theme of this story? I'd say the general theme of this story is one of creeping dread and the idea that traditions and being part of a crowd can desensitise people to extreme violence or horror. The story, for the most part, describes everyday scenes and interactions, and people discuss going back to work and having lunch after the mysterious "event", but the mood becomes more grim and tense as the lottery takes place. People fall into silence, lick their lips nervously, hold their breath... there is the sense that something is wrong but no one will outright mention it, leading you to nervously await the big reveal. What are examples of foreshadowing in this story? The first example is probably the boys gathering a big pile of stones. It's mysteriously not mentioned what the stones will be used for, but it seems like an odd thing to do. The second is possibly the description of the old traditions surrounding the lottery being forgotten, making you feel that this event is ancient and ritualistic. Later examples of foreshadowing are the villagers discussing other places banning the lottery and it being seen as a dishonorable and even "lazy" thing to do by the older villagers. It shows that this isn't a fun event and rather something that they feel is everyone's responsibility to undergo, letting you know that the event is unpleasant. Plus, the fact that everyone gets very tense when drawing their own tickets, when the host and the first man greet each other they smile humourlessly, and people generally keep talking about "hurrying up" and "getting it over with". What makes this story disturbing? A lot... The normalisation of ritualised violence to the point where people focus on getting it over with so they can focus on everyday things. The fact that they're probably keeping their minds on those everyday things so that they don't think about the horror of what's actually happening. The fact that the woman who "wins" is initially so casual about the event. She's perfectly happy to show up late to someone's stoning and chat to her neighbours and joke around as if it's a party, but then she gets chosen to be killed and her mood changes entirely. The fact that people are so cheerful and friendly to Tessy but no one complains or stands up for her, they're happy to let tradition run its course and murder her. It makes it seem like all relations in this village are superficial. People will kill each other without a second thought, even people they seemingly like and consider as friends, even their own family. The fact that they're giving kids pebbles to throw, teaching them how to carry on this deranged tradition and showing them that it's a normal thing to do. The fact that Tessy's kids are laughing in relief because it's not them, even though they must know that one of their parents will die. The idea that showing dissent to this "tradition", as other villages are apparently doing, upsets the villagers and even angers them, even though the tradition is objectively a bad thing and its purpose and meaning have been lost to time. People are uncomfortable with the idea of changing their behaviour or facing the idea that something they have "always done" is bad. No one wants to question the reasons and morals behind this event. In a way, everyone is scared of each other. No one wants to be the dissenter, everyone wants to blend in with the crowd and just "get it over with" unless they're the one who has to die. What could this be a metaphor for? Essentially any traditional form of behaviour that has hurt people. It covers the idea that people are fine with doing harmful things because that's how they've always been done and it doesn't hurt them personally. This could be applied to racism, sectarianism, homophobia... any form of ritualised and mostly unexplained prejudice. It can also be applied to the "mob mentality" and how people are more likely to behave violently and lose their own morals and objections when theyre part of a group. It could be applied to hypocrisy, when considering the character of Tessy and how she only thinks the lottery is "unfair" when it harms her. As a last thought, another horrible thing about this story is that Tessy, even when faced with her own death, only wants to redraw the lottery and push that fate onto someone else. She doesn't want to end the suffering, she only wants it to not be her that suffers. Alright, that's enough typing lol, I hope this is useful for someone out there.

Yes I’m here for homework

I will never get over the visceral horror the reveal gives me even though I've listened to this story a million times.

I've already lost count of how many times I've watched this video, just perfect. I'm from Brazil.

I've already lost count of how many times I've watched this video, just perfect. I'm from Brazil.

Besides the dangers of tradition and groupthink, another major theme of the story is human hypocrisy. Tessie seemed eager to participate at the beginning, but when things didn't go her way, she protested. If someone else "won" the lottery, she would gladly throw stones at them. People are total hypocrites.

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It's a fascinating story and highlights so many ills of humanity, such as groupthink, fear of change, blindly following meaningless traditions, power, and control... It's a great story and factual, unfortunately.

Why have authorities attacked the unvaccinated? Those who recovered have better immunity than the vaxxed, and the vaxxed are the ones spreading it more than anyone … Because Fear is being used to manipulate the vaccinated. They see the dehumanization and destruction of anyone the authorities single out and are afraid of being next

can’t believe I got to read this story 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Why the dislikes I am back from a speed reading video with next to not dislikes This one is better

Such a great reading! You really brought across Shirely Jackson's mastery of subtle dread, foreshadowing the ending with both tone and pace. Thank you for sharing!

Not sure if it would help, but here's a version with the teacher explaining and reading the story to a class. Might help it make more sense - ruclips.net/video/DVihE1KOVD4/видео.html.

Lets go english class lol

im here as a 6th grader bruv

Strange I heard this was the best,most famous story of Shirley Jackson, when she wrote The Haunting of Hill House, which I think is vastly better.

06:00 pensé que sólo a mí me pasaba ese ruido ocasional en la garganta xD

I have to write a narrative