Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but no one like to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box. ... Summers began talking about a new box, but every year the subject was allowed to fade off without anything's being done. ... It is very important while reading that you picked up the word allowed because this proves that the people wanted the thought to go away. ...

• Word Count: 449
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

June 27th is just after the summer solstice. ... Last, the names of three people in The Lottery are very impressive for the readers felt scared while reading. ... Summers is a "jovial man" (137). ... Summers does not look happy like his name. ... Summers tease good-humoredly with her sep...

• Word Count: 2165
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Lottery takes place on a warm summer's day in June. ... Summers instructs everyone to hurry up. ... Summers" (Jackson, Pg. 1). ... Summers, Tessie Hutchinson fails to be on time. ... In this short story by Shirley Jackson, she writes a great deal of irony throughout the reading, in many different ways, it many examples as to what was and why. ...

• Word Count: 1400
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• Grade Level: High School

Summers, the official of the lottery) but they are not successful because the conservatism of other villagers does not allow them any changes. ... Summers who has enough time and energy to devote to civic activities. ... Summers has a different attitude to this tradition than Old Man Warner but on the other side and in a certain way their opinions about the lottery are much more similar than a reader can realise after the first reading of the story. ... Summers was willing to make some changes in this ritual and to modify some elemnts of it in order to modernize the whole tradition, he would ...

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• Grade Level: High School

After reading that part, we're asking ourselves why are the boys collecting stones and guarding it? ... After reading that part, the question that comes to our mind is "Why are the women afraid of the pile of stones?". ... Like for Mr.Summers, we could notice that "Summers" refer to the season of Summer, which is usually considered by many a season of hapiness, energy, sun, birds...etc. ... ]", "a round-faced man" seems to be refering to the sun (round and circular), which is the first thing that we think about in Summer. ...

• Word Count: 797
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• Grade Level: High School

She states that 'the morning of June 27 was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green.' ... Summers, immediately arouses feelings of the season in the reader's minds. Summer is typically a time of happiness and relaxation. ... Summers, who ironically runs the coal business, arrives with the postmaster, Mr. ... Although critics have tended to see the box as the major symbol, careful reading discloses that, while the box is referred to three times in the fourth paragraph, the stool is emphasiz...

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His short literary work "The Moon in Its Flight,"" may be defined as a self-reflexive fictional work, in which two parallel stories are narrated through the use of peculiar techniques and devices: one story tells the summer romance between Rebecca and a young boy, who are immersed in a particular socio-historical context, and the other refers to the act of writing a story. ... One particular characteristic of metafiction is that it constantly reminds readers that they are reading fiction. ... In "The Moon in Its Flight"," the narrator tells the story of a couple who falls in love in a New Jer...

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• Grade Level: High School

With War World II ending in 1945 and "The Lottery,"" published just a short three years later, it is no surprise that readers had outrage and concern reading it the first time. ... Summers can represent Hitler in a way because Mr. Summers is the leader of the lottery and everyone obeys him. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The readers are told that the school has let out for the summer, and yet the "feeling of liberty sits uneasily"(255) with the children. ... After a second reading, readers could recognize some hints in retrospect, such as "stone" and the changes of people's feeling that guide them to the shock conclusion of the story. ...

• Word Count: 643
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A life of leisure with long walks, lying around on the sofa reading magazines. ... The reality is that the summer that follows is dark and gloomy with nowhere to go not even for the animals illustrating the depression and lack of motivation in Ivan's life will follow him. ...

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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. ... While reading, I could feel what Flora went through. ... This short story from the Canadian write Alice Munro is full of thrilling events that keep you reading. ...

• Word Count: 955
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• Grade Level: High School

Imagine being diagnosed with a disease which forbids you from any creative activity, stops you from going out, and limits your forms of expression. That's not even the worst part! There's also no guarantee you'll get better but all you are required to do is blindly follow orders given to you by your...

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• Grade Level: High School

So hot that even the thrush chose to hop, with long pauses between one movement and the other...and in the drone of the airplane the voice of the summer sky murmured it's fierce soul." ... This could be one of the many relevant readings. ...

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The summer after her father's death, the town brought in a construction company to begin paving the sidewalks. ... It could be argued that they are intended to refer to the successive sections of the story, each becoming as it were a sort of metaphorical characterization of the differing states through which the townspeople of Jefferson (and the readers) pass in their evaluation of Miss Emily. (35) Another critic, Robert Crosman, comments that in his reading of the story he found Miss Emily to be "menacing- and even "grotesque and stupid- while one of his students describe Miss Emily as h...

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"I even journeyed one long summer's day to the summit of the most distant hill, whence I stretched my eye over many a mile of terra incognita, and was astonished to find how vast a globe I inhabited." ... As a child, Irving found himself engulfed in the readings of far off places and beautiful scenery. ...

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The first publication of the short story "Cathedral" was in the March, 1981, issue of Atlantic Monthly. It was selected to appear in "The Best American Short Stories, 1982," and became the title story in the 1983 collection, Cathedral. This volume was very well-received by critics and readers alike...

• Word Count: 11148
• Approx Pages: 45
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School