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Were you surprised by the ending of the story? If not, at what point did you know what was going to happen? How does Jackson foreshadow the ending? How does Jackson lull us into thinking that this is just an ordinary story with an ordinary town? In what way does the setting affect the story?
Sorry it's kinda long but I hope you enjoyed it.
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I was surprised by the ending. He foreshadows it with stating how other villages have dropped the lottery. He words chooses really help with making it seem like a normal town. I like how it’s written. I think that the setting is perfect for it. In a way, it feels like you are right there watching everything happen. It was kind of long but I liked it.
I suspected by than that something bad would happen. He foreshadowed the ending by telling of the boys collecting stones though it doesn't make sense until the end. He also foreshadows with the child sent home the moment they find out what family was going to get hit. The setting makes it really unsettling. They basically sacrifice a person so that the rest of the town will have good harvest.
I've read this before, and I love it. But since I have read it, I wasn't surprised at the ending this time. The first time I read it, I guessed what was going to happen too. He foreshadows by the gathering of the stones and by saying that other towns had stopped the lottery, and how near the end people start getting nervous. He makes it seem like an ordinary town at the beginning by making it seem happy and making it feel like it was a lottery for a prize or something. He uses a lot of really good description to make you feel like you are right there in the action, so the setting helps a lot.
I was not surprised by the ending of the story. When Mrs. Hutchinson started to whine and plead I knew that some sort of sacrifice was going to be made. Looking back at the story afterwards, I could see how someone might figure out earlier in the story when the people start to become nervous. I interpreted this nervousness for an excited anxiety. Jackson makes you think this is an ordinary town by describing the outfits of the people and the way the people interact with each other. I think that the setting helped to build suspense and also to foreshadow what was going to happen.
I wasn't surprised by the ending. I'd read it before and figured something was wrong when the men hesitated to hold the box. I think Jackson does a great job of foreshadowing especially when they talk about the other towns and the villagers get antsy.
I was suprised about how they went about making the "sacrifice." I could tell that it was leading up to someone being killed, but the stoning part is definitely a suprising ending. I could tell that someone was going to be killed when people were looking around gravely, as it said in the story. He makes the town seem sort of ordinary by describing conversations, and having little descriptions of what Mr. Summers usually did in the town, as far as set up festivals and things.
I liked the flow, I liked the details, it held me captive, but the end was very disappointing. I did not like the ending at all! I agree with the others who posted before me about the setting seeming normal and all. It seems an odd thing to write about, at least to me. I like things on the positive side, negativity just makes me a bit depressed.
I was very suprised by the ending, i wasn't sure what was really going on through out the whole story but i knew it wasn't a cash lottery. He forshadows the story by talking about how other small villages had stopped doing the lottery and also the children collecting the stones in the corner of the square. He gets us thinking that its ordinary by the talking of the people and how everyone just seems ok with it.
I was very surprised at the ending because when I think of Lottery I think of money, and that's what I thought they would recieve for winning. It's forshadowed when the townspeople were talking and mentioned that one town gave up the lottery. This made me think because no town would give up a lottery if it related to money. People in the town are so accustomed to this stoning that it comes as no surprise. They feel like it's just a yearly event. The setting for me was set in the first few paragraphs. "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o'clock..." I can just picture this small town with only three hundred people and I immediately think of innocence which is why I was so shocked at the end. Overall, I really liked this piece and the simple, yet surprising story told.
Were you surprised by the ending of the story? If not, at what point did you know what was going to happen? How does Jackson foreshadow the ending? How does Jackson lull us into thinking that this is just an ordinary story with an ordinary town? In what way does the setting affect the story?
Sorry it's kinda long but I hope you enjoyed it.
I was kind of suprised but not really. i agree with kathleen, when Ms. Hutchinson started to whine and plead is when i figured that something was going to happen in the way of a sacrafice. The whole essay was good. he uses his words really well in the fact that he makes the story understandable and flow well. The story was to long for me but overall i thought it was pretty good. i would give it a B+.
I was surprised by the ending of the story. The foreshadowing used in the ending, where the people kept saying to redraw made me question why they kept saying that but once I read the ending I realized why. Also how other towns had stopped doing it and their town was one of the only ones still doing it. Another thing would be how that the kids were gathering stones, and it made me wonder what for.At first I really did think that this was a normal town, but it really wasn't. It was long but interesting.
I was.. really shocked. I wasn't a %100 clear what was happening until it was stated Tessie was being hit in the head with the stone. Rather horrific, really. I got very lulled into thinking it was some pie-eating contest thing, or something along those lines.
I had no idea...
I almost liked it, but it was almost too grim for me. A bit like those psychological thriller books, or the "Giver," which.. I could never swallow. I like a little more.. uplift to my reads. I could not see that one coming. I was a little bothered by the lack of capitalization, but that's me being nit-picky.
But, it seemed so off-handed, until the stoning began. Very interesting, to say the least.
The ending wasn't really surprising so much as unexpected. I liked the way that the author worded most of it, some of the choice words were well delivered. It was a bit too long, so I skimmed it, but it seemed like it wasn't too bad.
The ending was surprising because throughout the piece people seem to be at peace with the Lottery. They didn't act nervous or upset until the end.
When Tessie started to complain about how it wasn't fair I knew the Lottery was bad and when the pile of stones the boys had built was dissembled by the town I got the picture. Once the pile of rocks came into the picture again I understood what was happening.
This seems ordinary because the townspeople are okay with the lottery and they acted very lighthearted. If the setting weren't so casual then the ending wouldn't be so surprising.
Although it is morbid I like how the ending was such a wild surprise. I never would have guessed Tessie was going to get stoned. It was very interesting.
I didn't really appreciate this story too much honestly. I had an idea that something bad was going to happen when it described the kids guarding a pile of stones repeatedly and some kids sneaking stones into their pockets, but I was kind of hoping that it wouldn't involve stoning. Somebody else mentioned it, but I kind of thought that the lottery involved money, or property of some sort.
Jackson kind of paints the town as ordinary throughout this entire piece by kind of making a friendly atmosphere and comfortable conversations between families. The fact that he painted the portrait of entire families being there and the fact that it was somewhat of a family event made it seem innocent.
Overall I really didn't like the twist at the end, it kind of made me sick. Jackson seems like a tricky writer and he shows it in this piece.
i was pretty surprised by the ending, i know the author foreshadowed, but i guess i wasnt paying that close of attention because it was a little too long, i started to drift away from the meaning of the story.. but i liked it!
I was moderately surprised by the end of the story, but after the villagers begin to pick up rocks, I knew what was coming. Jackson foreshadows the end with the opening scene with the children gathering rocks.
I really wasn't suprised by the ending. He foreshadowed the ending by the boys gathering of the stones and saying that the other towns had stopped the lottery. The way he words it makes it feel like a normal town.
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