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

Literary devices

- Freitags pyramid

- Point of view

- Foreshadowing

Let's read together

While we read: 

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

The lottery

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

Freitags pyramid

Tradition dictionary definition

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

Point of view in literature

Point of view

- Who tells the story?

1st person (I - we)

2nd person (you)

3rd person (he, they, it, etc)

4th person (we, oneself, someone, etc)

Omniscient (all knowing)

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)

What is the mesage of the writer?

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