Never had this at school but ran in to this story in my adult life. This story is one of the best summaries of human behavior in terms of empathy or lack of - or the attitude of "we couldn't be bothered unless it was happening to us".....this is the foundation of why wars happen and more general why human society can cause systematic harm to other humans and animals.
As a retired teacher. I have read and taught this story over the years. I can give a few insights. This story depicts an event that has been repeated probably millions of times in human history. It is about ritual and tradition followed to its extreme -- human sacrifice. Human sacrifice has been done in all cultures and at most times during history. The horror is created by setting human sacrifice down in a modern small town. It makes what happens to the characters more relatable. It's no longer something you read about the Aztecs doing. Suddenly it's people who could be your neighbors and friends. That is what makes it horrifying. And it is also about blind adherence to tradition and about how easily a crowd can turn into a mob. Those are all generalities, but if they point some student in the right direction, them I'm good.
Everybody's in the comments talking about how they had to read this for homework but nobody's talking about how this probably inspired The Hunger Games.
I just came to check out this story and there are a bunch of kids in the comments having to analyse it for homework so I'm just gonna leave my own analysis of the text here and maybe it'll help a future English student. I'll write it in a Q&A format. What is the general theme of this story? I'd say the general theme of this story is one of creeping dread and the idea that traditions and being part of a crowd can desensitise people to extreme violence or horror. The story, for the most part, describes everyday scenes and interactions, and people discuss going back to work and having lunch after the mysterious "event", but the mood becomes more grim and tense as the lottery takes place. People fall into silence, lick their lips nervously, hold their breath... there is the sense that something is wrong but no one will outright mention it, leading you to nervously await the big reveal. What are examples of foreshadowing in this story? The first example is probably the boys gathering a big pile of stones. It's mysteriously not mentioned what the stones will be used for, but it seems like an odd thing to do. The second is possibly the description of the old traditions surrounding the lottery being forgotten, making you feel that this event is ancient and ritualistic. Later examples of foreshadowing are the villagers discussing other places banning the lottery and it being seen as a dishonorable and even "lazy" thing to do by the older villagers. It shows that this isn't a fun event and rather something that they feel is everyone's responsibility to undergo, letting you know that the event is unpleasant. Plus, the fact that everyone gets very tense when drawing their own tickets, when the host and the first man greet each other they smile humourlessly, and people generally keep talking about "hurrying up" and "getting it over with". What makes this story disturbing? A lot... The normalisation of ritualised violence to the point where people focus on getting it over with so they can focus on everyday things. The fact that they're probably keeping their minds on those everyday things so that they don't think about the horror of what's actually happening. The fact that the woman who "wins" is initially so casual about the event. She's perfectly happy to show up late to someone's stoning and chat to her neighbours and joke around as if it's a party, but then she gets chosen to be killed and her mood changes entirely. The fact that people are so cheerful and friendly to Tessy but no one complains or stands up for her, they're happy to let tradition run its course and murder her. It makes it seem like all relations in this village are superficial. People will kill each other without a second thought, even people they seemingly like and consider as friends, even their own family. The fact that they're giving kids pebbles to throw, teaching them how to carry on this deranged tradition and showing them that it's a normal thing to do. The fact that Tessy's kids are laughing in relief because it's not them, even though they must know that one of their parents will die. The idea that showing dissent to this "tradition", as other villages are apparently doing, upsets the villagers and even angers them, even though the tradition is objectively a bad thing and its purpose and meaning have been lost to time. People are uncomfortable with the idea of changing their behaviour or facing the idea that something they have "always done" is bad. No one wants to question the reasons and morals behind this event. In a way, everyone is scared of each other. No one wants to be the dissenter, everyone wants to blend in with the crowd and just "get it over with" unless they're the one who has to die. What could this be a metaphor for? Essentially any traditional form of behaviour that has hurt people. It covers the idea that people are fine with doing harmful things because that's how they've always been done and it doesn't hurt them personally. This could be applied to racism, sectarianism, homophobia... any form of ritualised and mostly unexplained prejudice. It can also be applied to the "mob mentality" and how people are more likely to behave violently and lose their own morals and objections when theyre part of a group. It could be applied to hypocrisy, when considering the character of Tessy and how she only thinks the lottery is "unfair" when it harms her. As a last thought, another horrible thing about this story is that Tessy, even when faced with her own death, only wants to redraw the lottery and push that fate onto someone else. She doesn't want to end the suffering, she only wants it to not be her that suffers. Alright, that's enough typing lol, I hope this is useful for someone out there.
I love this story. It's unsetttling and gets progressivly darker. Notice that before her family get the lottery ticket with the black dot she was happy and had no problem with the lottery only after she starts to object .
Everyone else is a teenager here for homework and having a miserable time but here I am at 35 listening to this for fun because I love the brilliant and troubled Shirley Jackson. Y'all know she wrote The Haunting of Hill House too right?
Yes! I bought the Haunting of Hill House on audio book. Shirley Jackson was very much ahead of her time. I listen to it every October. It's very unsettling. That housekeeper is a real piece of work and adds to the creepy environment.
the story if you dont understand: Each year there is a lottery and everyone is willing to take part and take a ticket, but the lottery is actually a sacrifice for crops and thats why stones where thrown at the woman lol.
so sinister . . . extremely well written, and the reader has also got the rhythm and mood that builds up the tension and ominous implication almost from the very beginning. This economic plain speech is a wonderful medium. A feature of the best American literature since the 1950s that I always appreciate.
This tab has been open for almost 3 days because 'I will totally get around to doing homework later'... 100%. Time to go back to doing anything but home work, anime time.
yea me too i'm sitting outside next to this idiot who keeps talking too much so i can't even hear the audio and idk what this story is about. pls send help.
I hate when the schools get so lazy, that they use the same short stories every year. I remember in 6th grade we did this one, and now im in 10, and we do it again. For the 4th time.
Literature is pulled from canon. Prior to university, the options are very limited due to the fact that secondary school boards are conservative by default. And since America is much more comfortable with violence than sex, and the most potent, memorable literature contains one or both of these things the safe thing to do is choose from very limited options. So, yes, there will be some repetition. This will lessen if you go to university and study literature.
My mind went blank as I was reading this, from what I got in this story a women wins the lottery and gets stones thrown at her😭 WHAT IS THIS?? This was painful for me to comprehend
This was written before TV a long time ago. It delves into the secret no one talks about, that doesn't get taught in schools; in agrarian societies of old, human sacrifice was a lot more common than you would imagine. Watch Christopher Lee's version of 'Wicker Man', for more on this subject. I'm not in formal school, I'm sixty five and listening for enjoyment. This is definitely not a book, for those with New York minute attention spans.
I give this as homework. What is better? Do you have short stories that 8th graders may like? I would like to give stories my students might like. Thanks in advance. :)
i'm here for homework. this was absolutely painful to read.i don't think i've ever read anything worse. yea, it gets better for a sentence - but then it goes right back.
@@niyeraraquel - Seems like you equate intelligence or thinking things through as serial killer behavior...but in reality those are good skills for many people to have.
I am 37 and am here just because Shirley Jackson was a mastermind and far ahead of her time. I can only imagine what people thought reading this in 1948! But I see most of the commenters are teens here for homework and now I'm upset because I would have loved to had this as an assignment in HS. I read 235 books my Junior year and never came across this. Never came across her until I was an adult. This story hopefully opens some of their eyes to the world we live in. Don't just take it for what it is. Think about all of the ritualistic and animalistic tendencies we have and do daily thoughtlessly. How self preservation is always all that ever matters. Tessie didn't want the end the lottery. In fact, she was happy and enjoying it and running late as if she showed up to a party a few min behind. She only cared when it was her household selected. Even then, she didn't want it to end, she just wanted it to not be her. The way her kids laughed and sighed with relief knowing it wasnt any of them but still were fully aware it was one of their parents. Making the children participate in this, anticipate actually from how they were there gathering stones at the beginning. It's what we still do today. Tik tok and Instagram, we shove it all in our children's faces and only have a problem when it finally brings terror to our own front door. I hope some of you take it for more than just face value. And then go read some of her other works because she truly was a genius in her field!
I have 6 overdue lessons in the same class and I'm here on the last day of Thanksgiving break trying to write a 9 paragraph essay about this story and two others. This helped a lot as this is the last year of highschool.
@@hansikatera6449 oh hi there. College is way different than I thought it would be. A lot of drama. Classes are hard. And i just have to teach my self to be an adult. I did take a gap year so this is my freshman year of college
@@SalMans838 Sorry for the late reply lol but thats amazing. I'm a freshman in highschool so what I'm dealing with can only be a fraction of what you're dealing with. I bet you're doing great, keep your head up
Such a great reading! You really brought across Shirely Jackson's mastery of subtle dread, foreshadowing the ending with both tone and pace. Thank you for sharing!
Had a fight with my drama teacher in my sophomore year in HS, 1972. She wanted us to portray the townsfolk as backwards, hayseed, hillbillies. I asked her if she had even read Ms Jackson's story. Teacher took a work of monumental social impact & turned it into meaningless trash. She also trashed my thoughts of a drama career but, that's on me.
Everyone on here talking about how they got this for school, no one talking about how fuckin CRAZY this shit is?! It went from peaceful town in the countryside to straight up Leviticus fanfic!
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I feel like people are sleeping on this story, especially with renewed interest in the Twilight Zone. I wanna see or even make a big budget movie of this.
the weather on june 27th was actually not nice for most of history, in 1894 there was a tornado that killed 3 people and in 1928 there was another tornado tbh its really just a tornado kinda day
Besides the dangers of tradition and groupthink, another major theme of the story is human hypocrisy. Tessie seemed eager to participate at the beginning, but when things didn't go her way, she protested. If someone else "won" the lottery, she would gladly throw stones at them. People are total hypocrites.
any one want to answer these questions before 10:00 pm ”[T]he whole lottery took less than two hours, so it could begin at ten o'clock in the morning and still be through in time to allow the villagers to get home for noon dinner." What makes this quote disturbing? ”Guess we better get started, get this over with, so's we can go back to work." What makes this quote disturbing? The villagers do not excuse children from the lottery. Even Nancy Hutchinson, 12, and her little brother, Davy, must draw from the black box. If a child draws the slip of paper with the black dot, he or she will be stoned. AND Children take part in the stoning. Little Davy is so small that he throws pebbles. Why are these passages so disturbing? Nancy Hutchinson and her brother Bill laugh when they draw blank lots. Only two people remain to draw, their father and mother. How could Nancy and Bill laugh when they know that their father or mother will draw the lot with the black spot and die?
I know this was a year ago but I miss high school English lmao I used to love answering questions like these The first two quotes are disturbing because the ritual sacrifice has become so normalised that people view it as a boring everyday event that's nothing more than a slight inconvenience. It's disturbing that children throw pebbles because they're being taught that stoning their friends and family to death every year is normal and being desensitised to senseless violence, so that they will grow up to carry on the tradition, even though many people are not sure of the tradition's origins or purpose anymore. The fact that Nancy and Bill laugh could be attributed to relief but also the idea that everyone in this story is selfish to some degree and only cares about not drawing the slip of paper themselves, including Tessy. Although, it could also be because complaining about this ritual is seen as disturbing the peace. If they showed their discomfort, they would probably be chastised and told to get the stoning of their mother over with.
Not sure if it would help, but here's a version with the teacher explaining and reading the story to a class. Might help it make more sense - ruclips.net/video/DVihE1KOVD4/видео.html.
Yeh 9th grade Pre-Ap ELAR got me here, I will say thought that “the legend of sleepy hollow” is the worst book ever as it’s a 40 page short story but it basically just repeats itself every paragraph in a different way every time so that the book literally goes no where until page 36, that book sucked!
I've read it 3 times. Once for middle school, once as an undergrad, and once just for "fun". It's not an enjoyable story, but it sure is a fascinating one.
Teacher : “don’t read this in advance unless you already have, we will read this in class tomorrow and answer the questions together” I’m reading it anyways because I wanna know what tf happens and I don’t remember anything the first time 😭☝️
I’m in my first year of college and I’m reading this for my English 111 class. My problem with this village is that they KNOW what their doing it wrong, but they don’t do anything about it...why??
Lol who else is here cause its homework
yep
Never had this at school but ran in to this story in my adult life. This story is one of the best summaries of human behavior in terms of empathy or lack of - or the attitude of "we couldn't be bothered unless it was happening to us".....this is the foundation of why wars happen and more general why human society can cause systematic harm to other humans and animals.
Yup English
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The moral of this story: Just because something is "tradition" DOES NOT make it right!
Dad?
Critical analysis of all things is wisdom
VEry well said, chap
Exactly. A lot of old people can’t understand this.
As a retired teacher. I have read and taught this story over the years. I can give a few insights.
This story depicts an event that has been repeated probably millions of times in human history. It is about ritual and tradition followed to its extreme -- human sacrifice. Human sacrifice has been done in all cultures and at most times during history. The horror is created by setting human sacrifice down in a modern small town. It makes what happens to the characters more relatable. It's no longer something you read about the Aztecs doing. Suddenly it's people who could be your neighbors and friends. That is what makes it horrifying.
And it is also about blind adherence to tradition and about how easily a crowd can turn into a mob.
Those are all generalities, but if they point some student in the right direction, them I'm good.
Came here for 7th grade ELA during quarantine, who else is with me.
senior year quarantine homework...
The Llama boy 24 junior yeae
The Lalama boy 24 same lol
Junior year of college... still being assigned this.
Freshman
damn everyone is here as a 7th grader and here I am as sophomore
Same im sophomore
I’m a Senior in high school
Senior here, but not an UK/USA student, Netherlands it is :)
I'm a freshman
bruh same im in ADVANCED english too
Everybody's in the comments talking about how they had to read this for homework but nobody's talking about how this probably inspired The Hunger Games.
That's what I was thinking also
Yes, I’m still listening but right away I thought of The Hunger Games.
I was totally thinking this!!
i was thinking the same... however reading this bcuz of homework lol and im a sophmore in college
This is funny 🤭In fact, this month we will be analysing and comparing this short story with The Hunger Games in college
I swear I’ve listened to this 50 times none of what she’s saying is sticking i literally can’t listen
Factssss
Saige Elizabeth I thought I was the only one
Me either i even put the captions on wtf is happening my brain doesnt process it
i'm not trying to be funny but...dyslexia?
carebitch oh lmao that might be why I am dyslexic
I just came to check out this story and there are a bunch of kids in the comments having to analyse it for homework so I'm just gonna leave my own analysis of the text here and maybe it'll help a future English student. I'll write it in a Q&A format.
What is the general theme of this story?
I'd say the general theme of this story is one of creeping dread and the idea that traditions and being part of a crowd can desensitise people to extreme violence or horror.
The story, for the most part, describes everyday scenes and interactions, and people discuss going back to work and having lunch after the mysterious "event", but the mood becomes more grim and tense as the lottery takes place. People fall into silence, lick their lips nervously, hold their breath... there is the sense that something is wrong but no one will outright mention it, leading you to nervously await the big reveal.
What are examples of foreshadowing in this story?
The first example is probably the boys gathering a big pile of stones. It's mysteriously not mentioned what the stones will be used for, but it seems like an odd thing to do.
The second is possibly the description of the old traditions surrounding the lottery being forgotten, making you feel that this event is ancient and ritualistic.
Later examples of foreshadowing are the villagers discussing other places banning the lottery and it being seen as a dishonorable and even "lazy" thing to do by the older villagers. It shows that this isn't a fun event and rather something that they feel is everyone's responsibility to undergo, letting you know that the event is unpleasant.
Plus, the fact that everyone gets very tense when drawing their own tickets, when the host and the first man greet each other they smile humourlessly, and people generally keep talking about "hurrying up" and "getting it over with".
What makes this story disturbing?
A lot... The normalisation of ritualised violence to the point where people focus on getting it over with so they can focus on everyday things. The fact that they're probably keeping their minds on those everyday things so that they don't think about the horror of what's actually happening.
The fact that the woman who "wins" is initially so casual about the event. She's perfectly happy to show up late to someone's stoning and chat to her neighbours and joke around as if it's a party, but then she gets chosen to be killed and her mood changes entirely.
The fact that people are so cheerful and friendly to Tessy but no one complains or stands up for her, they're happy to let tradition run its course and murder her. It makes it seem like all relations in this village are superficial. People will kill each other without a second thought, even people they seemingly like and consider as friends, even their own family.
The fact that they're giving kids pebbles to throw, teaching them how to carry on this deranged tradition and showing them that it's a normal thing to do.
The fact that Tessy's kids are laughing in relief because it's not them, even though they must know that one of their parents will die.
The idea that showing dissent to this "tradition", as other villages are apparently doing, upsets the villagers and even angers them, even though the tradition is objectively a bad thing and its purpose and meaning have been lost to time. People are uncomfortable with the idea of changing their behaviour or facing the idea that something they have "always done" is bad. No one wants to question the reasons and morals behind this event. In a way, everyone is scared of each other. No one wants to be the dissenter, everyone wants to blend in with the crowd and just "get it over with" unless they're the one who has to die.
What could this be a metaphor for?
Essentially any traditional form of behaviour that has hurt people. It covers the idea that people are fine with doing harmful things because that's how they've always been done and it doesn't hurt them personally. This could be applied to racism, sectarianism, homophobia... any form of ritualised and mostly unexplained prejudice. It can also be applied to the "mob mentality" and how people are more likely to behave violently and lose their own morals and objections when theyre part of a group. It could be applied to hypocrisy, when considering the character of Tessy and how she only thinks the lottery is "unfair" when it harms her.
As a last thought, another horrible thing about this story is that Tessy, even when faced with her own death, only wants to redraw the lottery and push that fate onto someone else. She doesn't want to end the suffering, she only wants it to not be her that suffers.
Alright, that's enough typing lol, I hope this is useful for someone out there.
BRO UR AN ACTUAL LIFE SAVER THANK YOU
Incredibly useful! Thank you so much you are an Angel!
LIOOOOOLLLLLL THANKS
Thanks
could you also identify examples of imagery that propel the plot and examples of suspense in action
I’m here for a college class... Now I’m questioning my education.. Fuck it, Tessie ain’t the only one getting stoned.
Nice 🌳💨
When are we gonna start sharing answers??
exactlyyy
me scrolling through to see if anyone has any 😂😂
@@jeremyjimenez1921 honestly ive been scrolling for an hour
@@jeremyjimenez1921 same
I love this story. It's unsetttling and gets progressivly darker. Notice that before her family get the lottery ticket with the black dot she was happy and had no problem with the lottery only after she starts to object .
Yup.
Everyone else is a teenager here for homework and having a miserable time but here I am at 35 listening to this for fun because I love the brilliant and troubled Shirley Jackson. Y'all know she wrote The Haunting of Hill House too right?
Dude same
Yes! I bought the Haunting of Hill House on audio book. Shirley Jackson was very much ahead of her time. I listen to it every October. It's very unsettling. That housekeeper is a real piece of work and adds to the creepy environment.
i'm 45 and i read the book in high school in 88, 40 years straight after the novel was published
Anyone have to do this for ELA class for today during Quarantine ?
Yep
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Ayooo
yep😔🤚
I'm so glad this video is here because I don't think I would've been able to read this by myself-
the story if you dont understand:
Each year there is a lottery and everyone is willing to take part and take a ticket, but the lottery is actually a sacrifice for crops and thats why stones where thrown at the woman lol.
omg u a life saver fr im here for english class and had no idea what was going on lmaoo
Tysmmmmm
so sinister . . . extremely well written, and the reader has also got the rhythm and mood that builds up the tension and ominous implication almost from the very beginning. This economic plain speech is a wonderful medium. A feature of the best American literature since the 1950s that I always appreciate.
This tab has been open for almost 3 days because 'I will totally get around to doing homework later'... 100%. Time to go back to doing anything but home work, anime time.
anyone here for english class?
me yo
Meee😂
yup
Aren't we all?
yea me too i'm sitting outside next to this idiot who keeps talking too much so i can't even hear the audio and idk what this story is about. pls send help.
I hate when the schools get so lazy, that they use the same short stories every year. I remember in 6th grade we did this one, and now im in 10, and we do it again. For the 4th time.
Literature is pulled from canon. Prior to university, the options are very limited due to the fact that secondary school boards are conservative by default. And since America is much more comfortable with violence than sex, and the most potent, memorable literature contains one or both of these things the safe thing to do is choose from very limited options. So, yes, there will be some repetition. This will lessen if you go to university and study literature.
My mind went blank as I was reading this, from what I got in this story a women wins the lottery and gets stones thrown at her😭 WHAT IS THIS?? This was painful for me to comprehend
No she got picked and now she gets sacrificed so they have good crops for another year that’s the lottery if you Win ya die
All I remember is she said it wasnt fair
what even is this story. 😭
its not that hard to understand...
@@savannahmclemore9627 oh man 🤦♀️
damn. everyone is here from high school and I'm here because of university.
This was written before TV a long time ago. It delves into the secret no one talks about, that doesn't get taught in schools; in agrarian societies of old, human sacrifice was a lot more common than you would imagine. Watch Christopher Lee's version of 'Wicker Man', for more on this subject. I'm not in formal school, I'm sixty five and listening for enjoyment. This is definitely not a book, for those with New York minute attention spans.
"The Wicker Man" is a fictional account of paganism.
This is painful for homework
And to think. I'm listening to this just to do it.
It is painful but at least the story is interesting and it's not about like boring old facts about animals...
I give this as homework. What is better? Do you have short stories that 8th graders may like? I would like to give stories my students might like. Thanks in advance. :)
Paul McDermitt please don’t they will fall asleep or find others things to do .I fell asleep twice
@@hueyinfemaleform4240 So give me something my students might like.
Pretty sure everybody is here because of homework lol
Edit: Welp that got dark :
I’m honestly confused, so the “lottery” is basically you getting hit with stones? Pls help I got school questions with this later 0_o
Yes but l think it's mostly about how you choose your fate because your choosing a paper you dont know that holds your fate.
Yep
I’m soooooo lost
Foreal, I was like hold on now WHAT??? 😬
Ive already read this in 7 grade and now have to read it sophomore year
spongeboob why as a sophomore though
Same dw
Idk
literally exactly same situation atm
Same bro😭
One of the best short stories ever written
i'm here for homework. this was absolutely painful to read.i don't think i've ever read anything worse. yea, it gets better for a sentence - but then it goes right back.
Honestly, I read it and after I finished I forgotten everything. It was dreadful to read lol
Surly u give me answers 😂
If you think this is bad, try reading "Herland" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It's eugenics disguised as feminism.
It’s better than the necklace now that is painful to watch trust me
What’s painful?
The fact that this is also being assigned as a college literary analysis assignment is crazy because even middle schoolers are doing this
Nothing like listening to sad old stories on christmas eve😂
My teacher expected me to read the actual book, naw, I’m listening to the audio book
It's not even a book! It's 3,378 words!
Um hi, wtf is this??? I'm convinced my English professor is a serial killer.
Understanding human behavior in a story like this is what makes someone less of a serial killer.
INTERNATIONALvids sounds like something a serial killer would say
@@niyeraraquel - Seems like you equate intelligence or thinking things through as serial killer behavior...but in reality those are good skills for many people to have.
@@niyeraraqueldon't need no ejakayshun, she's thinks attitude will get her through life. No future in that, Ms.Ni.
@@niyeraraquel ha ikr
I am 37 and am here just because Shirley Jackson was a mastermind and far ahead of her time. I can only imagine what people thought reading this in 1948! But I see most of the commenters are teens here for homework and now I'm upset because I would have loved to had this as an assignment in HS. I read 235 books my Junior year and never came across this. Never came across her until I was an adult. This story hopefully opens some of their eyes to the world we live in. Don't just take it for what it is. Think about all of the ritualistic and animalistic tendencies we have and do daily thoughtlessly. How self preservation is always all that ever matters. Tessie didn't want the end the lottery. In fact, she was happy and enjoying it and running late as if she showed up to a party a few min behind. She only cared when it was her household selected. Even then, she didn't want it to end, she just wanted it to not be her. The way her kids laughed and sighed with relief knowing it wasnt any of them but still were fully aware it was one of their parents. Making the children participate in this, anticipate actually from how they were there gathering stones at the beginning. It's what we still do today. Tik tok and Instagram, we shove it all in our children's faces and only have a problem when it finally brings terror to our own front door. I hope some of you take it for more than just face value. And then go read some of her other works because she truly was a genius in her field!
Every one talking about how there here from school the real question is can i get the answers?
nopeee.
brainly go brrrrrr
Killua pfp and yepp
I have 6 overdue lessons in the same class and I'm here on the last day of Thanksgiving break trying to write a 9 paragraph essay about this story and two others. This helped a lot as this is the last year of highschool.
lol hope ur doing well in college now
@@hansikatera6449 oh hi there. College is way different than I thought it would be. A lot of drama. Classes are hard. And i just have to teach my self to be an adult. I did take a gap year so this is my freshman year of college
@@SalMans838 Sorry for the late reply lol but thats amazing. I'm a freshman in highschool so what I'm dealing with can only be a fraction of what you're dealing with. I bet you're doing great, keep your head up
Well that took a DARK turn
Such a great reading! You really brought across Shirely Jackson's mastery of subtle dread, foreshadowing the ending with both tone and pace. Thank you for sharing!
Who is here for pure enjoyment!
Am I the only one here not for hw or an assignment?
why are you here then
If you are here to actually enjoy the book. I need your attentive and patience skills 😖😖😖😖😖
Meeee!
yo same. i fucking love this story
@@tararenee207 to enjoy the story :)
9th grade gang form up
Ps: when I saw I had to read this I was like why work hard when you can work smart so I looked this up
What’s the mood and tone of the story? It’s like not sticking with me but I’m only 6 minutes kn
@@helloperson9717 do you have the answers now?
This is the world's biggest Bruh Moment lol
Who has to do tough questions
no i just have to WRITE A ESSAY!
@@maverickzheng3014 Same, lol. This story was very interesting though!
are we gonna share answers or no
Had a fight with my drama teacher in my sophomore year in HS, 1972. She wanted us to portray the townsfolk as backwards, hayseed, hillbillies. I asked her if she had even read Ms Jackson's story. Teacher took a work of monumental social impact & turned it into meaningless trash. She also trashed my thoughts of a drama career but, that's on me.
Everyone on here talking about how they got this for school, no one talking about how fuckin CRAZY this shit is?! It went from peaceful town in the countryside to straight up Leviticus fanfic!
but like really, damn good story
sounds like bible stories? religion. Question tradition!
The original "Try doing that in a small town"
I’m here because of the movie, “Shirley” on Hulu. Fantastic movie
who else is here from schoolwork doing corona
Maddie 575 yup
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I feel like people are sleeping on this story, especially with renewed interest in the Twilight Zone. I wanna see or even make a big budget movie of this.
Their is a movie from 1996 that’s decent
The Hunger Games
It might help some of you struggling...think of The Hunger Games......you might then understand this.
Welp I’m here for hw
Talking about this tonight on the clubhouse app. It's a lesson on "man's inhumanity to man". Thanks for hosting it.
20:58 I'm sure Davy was grateful for a chance of his own. "Here little guy, I know it's your mom but, you know... tradition."
the weather on june 27th was actually not nice for most of history, in 1894 there was a tornado that killed 3 people and in 1928 there was another tornado tbh its really just a tornado kinda day
We had to read this story in 6th and 8th grade and now we're listening to it in english 11. Love the adaptations of the education system 👍🙃🙃
I keep this open as a separate tab in case my teacher walks by
2021 anyone
POV: you are have to read this during class
POV: You are looking at someone with "great" grammar
pov: lookin at chat lik👁👄👁
Thank you Cumtown. I would have never discovered this piece of art without you.
7th Grade English, lol who else got this for HW :P
Me lol
Meh
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mhm 7th grade hw😔
Bruh year 9 🤣
why is everyone here for their homework hell ??! am i the only one who came to enjoy ?
No. But then I'm 50 years old lol.
I'm just here because I was interested in the story. I never had it for homework or anything
Besides the dangers of tradition and groupthink, another major theme of the story is human hypocrisy. Tessie seemed eager to participate at the beginning, but when things didn't go her way, she protested. If someone else "won" the lottery, she would gladly throw stones at them. People are total hypocrites.
Why is this my f*ing HOMEWORK!!! 🤬
Wow I and I thought only my and my class was just doing this
What a pleasing surprise to hear this story narrated by a Brit - Lancashire or Cheshire, I should guess by the sound of the accent.
Fine work, Lady.
I'm here because I love disturbing short stories with a lesson.
Epic story
Don’t tell me I’m the only one who actually enjoyed this story....
Here for school lmao
Same :)
OK I like it more than the necklace
Am I the onley one who couldnt pay attention????😂
Na I can't pay attention 😭
You might be a visual rather than auditory learner. Try reading the story instead.
No
There's a short movie. 9 minutes if I recall correctly.
yeah cause this idiot sitting next to me talks too much
I am here cuz i love Shirley.
Wow, was not expecting that!! 😬
god i hate having to read stories for home work, i always have to listen to audio books but then forget like half of it
Take notes.
Reading the comments are far more interesting than the story.
thanks Jennifer :)
Listening to this while on a road trip
need this for english day storytelling!!!!
any one want to answer these questions before 10:00 pm
”[T]he whole lottery took less than two hours, so it could begin at ten o'clock in the
morning and still be through in time to allow the villagers to get home for noon dinner."
What makes this quote disturbing?
”Guess we better get started, get this over with, so's we can go back to work." What
makes this quote disturbing?
The villagers do not excuse children from the lottery. Even Nancy Hutchinson, 12,
and her little brother, Davy, must draw from the black box. If a child draws the slip of
paper with the black dot, he or she will be stoned.
AND
Children take part in the stoning. Little Davy is so small that he throws pebbles.
Why are these passages so disturbing?
Nancy Hutchinson and her brother Bill laugh when they draw blank lots. Only two
people remain to draw, their father and mother. How could Nancy and Bill laugh when
they know that their father or mother will draw the lot with the black spot and die?
People laugh for reasons other than humor.
I know this was a year ago but I miss high school English lmao I used to love answering questions like these
The first two quotes are disturbing because the ritual sacrifice has become so normalised that people view it as a boring everyday event that's nothing more than a slight inconvenience.
It's disturbing that children throw pebbles because they're being taught that stoning their friends and family to death every year is normal and being desensitised to senseless violence, so that they will grow up to carry on the tradition, even though many people are not sure of the tradition's origins or purpose anymore.
The fact that Nancy and Bill laugh could be attributed to relief but also the idea that everyone in this story is selfish to some degree and only cares about not drawing the slip of paper themselves, including Tessy.
Although, it could also be because complaining about this ritual is seen as disturbing the peace. If they showed their discomfort, they would probably be chastised and told to get the stoning of their mother over with.
Everyone is here in middle or high school and I’m here in college
I’m in 8th✨😂
I’m doing this in DC English, so basically college so I feel that
Not sure if it would help, but here's a version with the teacher explaining and reading the story to a class. Might help it make more sense - ruclips.net/video/DVihE1KOVD4/видео.html.
Omg thank you so much!!! Helped me understand it better!
I will never get over the visceral horror the reveal gives me even though I've listened to this story a million times.
Yeh 9th grade Pre-Ap ELAR got me here, I will say thought that “the legend of sleepy hollow” is the worst book ever as it’s a 40 page short story but it basically just repeats itself every paragraph in a different way every time so that the book literally goes no where until page 36, that book sucked!
LOLL
If you think that's bad, try reading some James Fenimore Cooper.
can’t believe I got to read this story 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Ikr couldn’t be me
I watched the whole thing and im still lost asf
I really like this story - said no one ever
I've read it 3 times. Once for middle school, once as an undergrad, and once just for "fun". It's not an enjoyable story, but it sure is a fascinating one.
I can say that, actually
thanks for helping me with hw
am i the only one that didn’t come for school
who eals is here in 2024, listening to this for school 😅
Well, that escalated, wtf
Tfw South Park has lead me to so much good literature and media
I have to write an essay on this.
send
Fuck. I have to stop reading comments and start paying attention
Grade 9 student be like :
Hi, are you speaking in third person?
Teacher : “don’t read this in advance unless you already have, we will read this in class tomorrow and answer the questions together”
I’m reading it anyways because I wanna know what tf happens and I don’t remember anything the first time 😭☝️
This is a better written Hunger Games
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I HATE THIS DUDE I DIDNT EVEN DO IT
So anyone know what a good theme for this would be
Bruh I’m here fo my fuckin friends 9th grade homework 🤣🤣🤣
I’m in my first year of college and I’m reading this for my English 111 class.
My problem with this village is that they KNOW what their doing it wrong, but they don’t do anything about it...why??
debbie quao Because they are not willing to stand up for others if they are not affected by it
Same, its my first year of college and my English Honors class assigned this story. It was very interesting
This is a propaganda piece.
Tradition witouth critical thought
Jesus, we covered this story in 7th grade.
Watching at 1.5x speed 😌
I know damn well I ain’t spending 20min listening to Walmart hunger games-