Short Story Analysis

For your short story analysis essay It will be on the Lottery by Shirley Jackson, the pdf is provided below. You will need to plan your analysis first deciding on your thesis followed by which supporting details you will use. To get a better idea of what type of essay you are planning, look the following sample essay in the word doc below. The grading rubric is below! The vocab in the essay should feel easy and natural. Here is a thesis you may use, and some supporting examples and quotes to make your time easier. “Shirley Jackson uses the stoning of Tessie Hutchinson in “The Lottery” to showcase conformity and the danger of following traditions blindly.” Detail 1: Narrator telling us how lottery was done so much that the people didn’t really listen to instructions.

Example 1: The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions: most of them were quiet. wetting their lips.

Detail 2: Describing how some places have quit lotteries probably due to stoning someone to death being immoral. Instead of questioning the purpose of continuing the tradition, the village continues to follow it.

Example 2: “Some places have already quit lotteries.” Mrs. Adams said. “Nothing but trouble in that,” Old Man Warner said stoutly. “Pack of young fools.”