The_Lottery

The Lottery When I think of a lottery, I picture someone swimming in a pool of money, throwing the bills into the air, just to have the joy of watching them float back down to their side. I thought that’s where this story was going, because that's how the author sets it up. But even before the tragic end to this story, I started to pick up on some unusual things. First of all, I found the town way too skittish and rather uneasy. I know that I would be nervous for a lottery too, but not to the extent where I feel sick over it. That’s the kind of feeling that I got for the town. “...most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around.” This quote makes me pictures a mob of people standing around the black box and Mr. Summers. All of them trying not to make eye contact, staring at their shoes, praying they get to live another year. I went back over this story and read it twice, the second time I highlighted all of the things that I found unusual or interesting. If you look at my people, live, year, town, story, lottery, black, time, thought, things, know, it’s, going, chance, because, you’re, years, village, unusual, that’s, that's, someone, quite, probably, picked, over, old, never, man, look, lives, life, highlighted, found, even