The Lottery: Review

The story was made by Shirley Jackson the Gothic horror master. First off, that is not true the real gothic horror master is H. P. Lovecraft, Not this Shirley Jackson.

The title Lottery when i first read it i though on awesome someone wins something or it going to be about the troubles of winning the lottery. Clearly i was right on the latter it is about the grief of winning the lottery during this time.

Story goes on with the town/villager people gathering around and pulling little pices of paper from a black box. The head of the families goes up and picks a piece of paper. If it is blank you are self if it has a little black dot you are not. At first i thought they were part of some weird cult. Which i can still argue that they are seeing how other town/village have stopped this old practice. Which from the words of some of the towns people are crazy. Now they would want to live in cave. Some of the old people are closed mind people do not like changed.

You can rank this right up along side with some of the catholic churches and their hate for gay marriage. Saying it been this way all the time one change it now.

Also with the separation of church and state, some are believe the church should be with the state some say it should stay the same.

The story goes on the a family get a black dot and the wife says it wasn’t fair pick again. But this time the whole family goes and the wife end up with the black dot and not the husband. She is then stood to death declaring this wasn’t right before dying which we can all agree which happen.

This story reminds me of a greek tail where a King with his wife and princess would make the whole kingdom gather and pick stone. If you got a white stone you were clear and would not be sacrificed. If you got a black stone you would be sacrificed to the gods. But unlike the story above there would be more than one person getting killed. An they did not die of stoning. They would be sent off being lead by the kings mean too a cave where the hell beast lived and they would be eaten. You could not run, and you were also gather at night.

This story also had Hercules /who did not have a black stone/ and a philosopher/who had a black stone./ who i can’t remember the name of and the son of poseidon/who took the philosopher stone (Hah harry potter joke)/. In the end the monster is slay and they all live.

The practice is soon put to an end because there is no longer a monster to fear.

But this story has no monster there is no religious fear just a pecking order. Of course minded people who are fear of change.