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OpenStudy (fionacndg):

What do you think were Shirley Jackson’s thoughts in writing The Lottery. What is the lesson we are to learn from this story? Were you surprised when it turned out to be a sacrifice?

OpenStudy (fionacndg):

i Have to write an essay and need help setting up an outline and thesis statement

OpenStudy (anonymous):

have you seen the movie it self my friend

OpenStudy (anonymous):

people were greedy

OpenStudy (fionacndg):

i have read the book

OpenStudy (anonymous):

people were greedy

OpenStudy (fionacndg):

how were they greedy? they were blind to the injustice and tradition that they continued to uphold.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

money

OpenStudy (anonymous):

then why do they call the lottery if money is not involved

OpenStudy (fionacndg):

there was no money involved

OpenStudy (fionacndg):

u have definitely not read the book

OpenStudy (anonymous):

that's the point they thought that they were going to get money but instead death was involved (they don't call me sherlock holmes for nothing

OpenStudy (fionacndg):

read the book http://sites.middlebury.edu/individualandthesociety/files/2010/09/jackson_lottery.pdf it is not at all what you think, the title is ironic

OpenStudy (anonymous):

ok this story is mainly about the suffering that is happing. this is why he wrote this (ps) your thoughts

OpenStudy (fionacndg):

so for "what is the lesson to lean" what would i write? what am i supposed to be taking in?

OpenStudy (fionacndg):

and i dont think suffering is part of it

OpenStudy (anonymous):

he wrote this during world war (hint and key point why he wrote this

OpenStudy (anonymous):

let me break it down for you

OpenStudy (fionacndg):

she not he, i do not think we are talking about the same thing!

OpenStudy (anonymous):

we are

OpenStudy (anonymous):

we should not all ways follow what other people do that that's what the story is all about

OpenStudy (fionacndg):

yes but my question is , (so i can write a 1000 word paper) What do you think were Shirley Jackson’s thoughts in writing The Lottery. What is the lesson we are to learn from this story? Were you surprised when it turned out to be a sacrifice?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

give me a sec i 'll have it

OpenStudy (anonymous):

this is what someone said Shirley Jackson wrote her dark, renowned short story "The Lottery" while living on ... As generations of readers were shocked to learn, community order in the ... In later describing how she came to write the story, Shirley said: "Perhaps the ... You don't ask questions about what goes on in their land, their house, their clan.

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