Essay on The Lottery and What A Thought -- Shirley Jackson Lottery Ess

Comparing The draft and What A Thought The short stories I move over chosen were The Lottery and What A Thought by Shirley Jackson. Shirley Jackson is considered a morbid writer due to the fact that she writes her stories with the intent to shock her readers into comprehend the truth behind human nature. Her tame deals with an evil presence in everyday life. The Lottery is a chilling tale of an everyday townsfolk and their annual lottery. It shows how cruel a town can be in protecting their tradition and rituals and how not even friendship matters. The second, being engraft in a collection of 50 short stories found later on Jacksons death, shows how quickly a married woman of many years can hug drug on her preserve without warning. both(prenominal) stories contained strong imagery and foreshadowing events guide up to the climax. The Lottery was written shortly after World warfare II, however it is unknown as to when Jackson wrote What A Thought. The Lottery a nd What A Thought follow Shirley Jacksons usual scheme of shock value. Both stories show of how quickly, no matter what length of time people get under ones skin coincided together and bonded together, one can turn on another. The Lottery showed of how a small everyday town will do anything to hold their handed-down values. The town believed that they had to make a human sacrifice to the land in order to have good crops. Therefore every year they held a lottery to find out who the sacrifice would be. In the story What A Thought a husband who would do absolutely anything to keep his wife happy was brutally killed just because that is the way his wife felt on that day. These are things that tie in... ...mmer is associated with life, not death. In What A Thought the husband is almost perfect. Who would ever want to kill the perfect husband? well(p) mo manpowerts before the terrible thoughts the wife was feeling pride for her husband who never did things like sleep after dinner as most men do. How her husband would do anything for her and yet without wanting to kill him, she had the longing to do so. Shirley Jackson definitely can prove a point. She uses great foreshadowing, ridicule and symbolism shown in both of these stories. Her style is unique to other writers besides does not differ much within her own writings. The Lottery and What A Thought were very good selections for me to chose because they held great meaning behind sulky story lines. I look forward to reading more of her work and researching her character.