V6 the Lottery

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Goals: 

- I understand the story of The Lottery

- I can indicate the different fictional elements in the Lottery

Let's read together

While we read: 

look at the elements we see in fiction and indicate how they are present in the story.

Freytag's pyramid

What is the plot of The Lottery?

What is the plot of The Lottery?

it's lottery day

traditions

- box gets readied

- family's draw a piece of paper

- Hutchinson family wins and draws again

Tessie wins

Tessie argues unfairness,

while villagers gather stones

Tessie is stoned to death

unclear, but the villagers probably go on with their lives until the next lottery

The Lottery - Shirley Jackson

Tradition dictionary definition

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/tradition

www.newyorker.com

Question 3 handout

all is lost, also the original meaning of/reasons behind the lottery.

blind allegiance to tradition.

Foreshadowing

•  literary device that writers utilize as a means to indicate or hint to readers something that is to follow or appear later in a story.
• excellent device in terms of creating suspense and dramatic tension for readers.

In hindsight.
Name a few parts of the story that could be seen as foreshadowing.

Boys collecting stones

villagers are uneasy/quiet/not very excited

Mrs hutchinson was late

People drawing for each other. Watson's boy draws for family..... Mr Watson won last year????? (inference)

Old man warner: ''always been a lottery, bad that Mr Summers is joking - is serieus day

Irony

•  What you hear or see does not match with reality.
• Think of sarcasm. When it is raining and someone tells you: "What a lovely day to be outside."
• Often used in cases of misfortune:
  Win the lottery and die the next day
  Being hit by an ambulance

Question 1 handout

• common people - reader can relate; closer to home

• Irony here makes it all more general and applicable to 'any' small town. (lines 1-7)

Symbolism

• A symbol stands for something else, bigger, universal.
  
• It is a literary technique that adds meaning to a short story by using an event or object as a symbol to represent something else. 
• For example, a gravestone may be a symbol of death since gravestones are associated with death.
• Many authors use symbolism to subtly allude to the meaning of something without being obvious.

The Lottery

Homework check

What happens when you win the lottery?

What is the point of view in The Lottery?

1. first person pov
2. third person pov
3. omniscient pov
4. limited omniscient pov

What is the theme of The Lottery?
(i.e. what lesson can you learn)

Jackson’s point is that every age and every culture has its own illogical and even harmful traditions, which are obeyed in the name of ‘tradition’.

Not all traditions should be followed blindly.

which conflict is present in The Lottery

1. man versus nature
2. man versus society
3. man versus man
4. man versus self

https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/fiction/a-m-homes-reads-shirley-jackson