One of the leaders and important man of the town is Mr. Summers. Summer is a season of the year. It is the season of growing, the season of life. His name represents partly the old pagan fertility ritual because the harvest that is being sacrificed to is being grown in the summer. This is supp...
Summers arrived in the square, carrying the "black box." ... Summers must ask for help. ... However pleasant this picture seems, the villagers know fully that when the drawing is over, one person in the community will die. ... Summers whose name implies warmth and life. ... Although all life ends in death, in which fate may play a major role, we choose to believe that when the time to die comes we will have more control over our own destiny. ...
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. ...
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 ...
Summers and Old Man Warner and the rest of the villagers. ... But I will bury him; and if I must die, I say that this crime is holy: I shall lie down with him in death, and I shall as dear to him as he is to me.... Summers if he is ready. ... Summers based on his wife's concern, but instead followed along with the ritual. ... Summer had made the night before with the heavy pencil in the coal-company office. ...
Summer's name highlights his central role of the lottery. ... "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full summer day; the flowers were blooming profusely and the grass was richly green." ... Summers. ... Graves, which all villagers do, will possibly die and end up in a grave. ...
The story starts off on a beautiful summer day in a small town. ... We see that even as Tessie is being stoned to death does she not question the reasoning behind the lottery, but why it should be her that has to die.(343) Works Cited Gwynn, R. ...
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. ...
Summers who had time and energy to devote to civic activities" and by "Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example, selecting the smoothest and roundest stone" (Jackson 78). ... Hutchinson died due to a traditional act, not because a criminal act. ...
Shockingly the husband nearly dies his wife's request for him to help her. ... To her husbands' shock, he nearly dies seeing his wife go complexly insane. ... Summers began talking again about the new box, but every year the subject was allowed to fade off without anything's being done", the subject wasn't enforced. ...
