In this work the lottery represents a really old and almost unbelievably cruel tradition in which the winner is set into a position of a scapegoat and his or her inevitable fate is to die. ... So she almost forgets what day it is and finally she has to die. ... Summers who has enough time and energy to devote to civic activities. ... They act as if there weren`t any emotions and compassion inside of them, they don`t care that somebody will have to die at the end of this ritual, they don`t feel any guilt at all. ... Summers who owns a coal company, Mr. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury, "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, and "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe all show this idea. In "All Summer in a Day", the reader can clearly see the children's cruelty towards Margot. The school children in the short story, "All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury, treat Margot very cruelly. ... In this short story, Montresor shows a great deal of brutality towards Fortunato because he leaves him chained to a wall to die a slow death. ... In Edgar Allen Poe's short story, Montresor locks Fortunato in the basement to die...

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• Grade Level: High School

That summer, Lyman and Henry leave the Chippewa reservation, with their life savings, to enjoy a summer filled with excitement. ... This is a summer with no boundaries, a summer when they can go wherever the wheels of the red convertible lead them. ... Susy's family takes them in, and provides them with a place to stay for the summer. ... Her hair had been wrapped in a bun all summer, so she lets it down. ... After all the turmoil Henry had seen the three years he was away, his mind would not leave where he had come from; whether it be from the memories of killing a human being or f...

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Summer, must be sworn in before the lottery can officially start. ... Most people may consider this a strange ritual and may believe that these people were abnormal for participating in a lottery that decides who dies on June 27th. ... Today, people die by using drugs, kill others in heartless murders, and murder unborn babies through abortion. Everyday people die in many ways and our society has grown to accept this way of life. The only difference is, these people are not chosen to die except by God. ...

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Summers, the villager responsible for conducting the lottery, often suggests having a new box, "no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box" (565). ... Summers had argued, had been all very well when the village was tiny, but now that the population was more than three hundred and likely to keep on growing, it was necessary to use something that would fit more easily into the black box" (566). ... Summers, a perfunctory, tuneless chant (566). ... Tessie Hutchinson dies for no reason but that it is tradition for someone to die every year, and ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At the beginning of the story the writer paints a pretty picture by describing the day as being "clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green." ... Summers set the black box down on it. ... Summers asks for some help and is hesitation, before someone volunteers to help. ... Hutchinson, and that was only after she knew that either herself or someone in her family was going to die. ...

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Mallard dies herself of shock after she convinces herself that it was good for him to be dead. ... She felt abandoned by her husband who had so recently died, and was full of grief. ... Anxious for spring days, summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own; that she did not any longer have to share with anyone overwhelmed her. ... She does not even like the sight of him- she is so overcome with disbelief and revulsion that she dies of heart disease. ...

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Summers. ... These people have been growing up in this village for probably their whole lives and each year they take the chance, live or die. If these are grown men in their thirties, forties and fifties, that's quite a long time if there's a chance that you maybe picked to die in the next year. ...

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The importance of the story is not that the moth dies, but that the idea lives on just like how the moth caught fire and stayed alight "until I blew her out.... An example of this in Death of a Moth is "Two summers ago, I was camped alone in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. ...

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As she was projecting spring and summer days to come, a feeling that her life would be her own again gave her a contentment that she had not felt in a long time. ... To her sister (Josephine) it would appear that she died of joy when she saw her spouse was not dead. ...

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Mallard comes alive once her husband dies by Mrs. ... Mallard sees him, she almost instantly dies. ... Everyone is described as enjoying the "fresh warmth of a full summer day, the flowers blossoming profusely and the richly green grass" (Jackson). ... I believe Chopin did this to show that in reality someone can get happy to see someone else die, it could bring them joy, freedom, or even a sense of tranquility. ... Jackson showed the reader the fact that some people actually like to see someone die. ...

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Her auburn hair would glisten in the summer sun and glow in the winter snow. ... " But before my head came to a stop, before my lips could utter the last of my words, there she was: Abigail, the child from years ago who passed away on a glowing summer evening, stood in front of me. ... No one plans to die, and even those that claim they do don't understand the gravity of the situation. ...

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Everybody has a story to tell, It can be about your weekend, your summer vacation, what happened to a friend of yours but in Alice Munro's short story " Friend of My Youth-, the narrator has a very fascinating story to tell. ... Flora's father had set the wedding one year ahead before he died. ... The teacher then, in her early fifties got a paralyzing disease and died. ...

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She thinks of spring and summer days. ... Louise, in her tender condition, shrieks and dies on the floor before him. The doctor pronounces that she has "died of heart disease - of joy that kills." ...

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Henry James's - The Turn of the Screw From the moment of its publication, The Turn of the Screw has continuously been a challenge both for the common reading and for criticism. We, the readers, when being unaware of its complexity, may be very easily carried away and fall into all the traps pr...

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