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. ...

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• Approx Pages: 4
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• Grade Level: High School

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 ...

• Word Count: 874
• Approx Pages: 3
• 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. ...

• Word Count: 648
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 519
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• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 454
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• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 932
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 746
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School