Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery,"" is a short story about an annual lottery drawing in a small rural town that has been held for over seventy-seven years. ... Jackson uses symbolic meaning in the names of her characters to indicate and foreshadow what is to come, after the lottery has been conducted and a winner is selected. The name Summers is the sir name of the lottery officiate. His name symbolizes the time the lottery is conducted; summer time on June 27. ... They are used to brutally stone the villager who has won the lottery. ...

• Word Count: 686
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"The Lottery" is told in chronological order, starting with the townspeople gathering in the town square and ending with the winner of the lottery's prize. ... "The Lottery" begins with a description of the setting. ... The black box foreshadows that something bad is going to happen. ... The black dot was also a symbol of death and again which foreshadows the bad that would follow later in the story. ... They"re always been a lottery" (275). ...

• Word Count: 1086
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Symbolism The short stories "The Lottery" and "Everyday Use" used symbolism to express their main points. ... One of the symbols in "The Lottery" was the stone. ... The main and most important symbol in "The Lottery" was the black wooden box. ... Symbols in "The Lottery" foreshadow what is to come. ...

• Word Count: 476
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School