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Introduction

Although highly controversial and rejected in his day, The Lottery is considered today a little gem of American fiction and, apparently, has been adapted several times to different media, from radio to television or even ballet. When I started reading "The Lottery" I thought it was a typical old story, in which a group of people together and start playing a kind of traditional gambling game in which the person who had the luck to be the "winner ".

Discussion

Another important point that can be distinguished in history is indicating that other people and not used to play "the lottery" because to my mind was already an old-fashioned game, out of place and time. Another important aspect are the stones that are listed at the beginning that I thought had nothing to do with the story, children simply used them to play (Mann). But at the end of the story is when I realized I had an intention to kill. The anxiety that people had about the game was not joy at winning something but not the person unfortunate to lose the game. This story makes me very unfair and cruel that is typical of villages full of traditions often without reason, that resist change and continue their lives while accepting those traditions are harmful.

While Shirley is best known for novels such as The Haunting of Hill House (1959) (not in vain several times adapted to the big screen), it is thanks to one of his short stories, The lottery , which breaks into very strong stepping in the consciousness of the average American (Lotila). Posted on June 26, 1948 in The New Yorker, this story that, despite its powerful symbolic, today we could look even softer when talking about the dangers of group companies, managed to raise a genuine dust between the opinion public at the time of publication, leading many readers to cancel their subscription to the magazine and, as in the most radical, even to send letters full of hate and blame (many of which, ironically, managed to stop scaring the author of that story that they felt terribly amoral).

There are predators who hide their murderous nature, which mimic the diluted and confident to take a look harmless. They get next to you, caress you, drunk and stun you with exquisite and subtle ritual (Mann). Perhaps you sense something, a part of your being, intimate, prevents you, calls you to flee, but the seductive power of those eyes is overwhelming, intractable. When you realize it's too late, the deadlock has taken hold in you feel a laceration, a late puncture of infinite pain. Then the blackness, a void.

This story of Jackson acts like that. Lulls you, fascinates you, you just go for leisurely pace and bucolic. But you know it's a story of fear, you know that the germ of the evil is loose, there lies between those sentences innocent harmless after those images (Ranagopoulos). There comes a time where you think intuition will come the ...