5/19/2023 0 Comments Jackson the lottery summaryThe winner isn't too happy, but the others are giddy with relief and insistent on the following through with traditions.Ĭan I begin by saying just how much this story blew my mind? I had heard that it was awesome, and that when it was first published, there was such strong reaction to it - many of them negative of course. The lottery begins, and it is then we begin to see some interesting reactions. There is an air of excitement and nervousness and the general first impression is that of willful acceptance. If there is no son, then the wife can be the family head, but of course, she is questioned publicly about whether she didn't have any son who met that criteria before they accepted her for the drawing. Husbands are viewed as the head of their families/households, and if the husband is absent for some reason, a son above the age of sixteen will be the head. Not everyone draws however, but only the head of the family. One of these chips is marked has a special mark on it to identify the winner (the person who draws that chip). Children, women, men, all come to the main square of their village or town, where the lottery master keeps a black box full of paper chips. In contemporary America, villagers across the country are gathering on the 27th of June (and some a day earlier) for an annual event called the Lottery.
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