“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
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Directions for Essay One
You must use your Office 365 account for essay composition. See the video that I have prepared for that.
word minimum: 300 words, not including the Work Cited page, which will be its own page and the last page of the essay
As short as this may be, it should have at minimum three paragraphs: intro, body, and conclusion.
thesis sentence underlined (The thesis should be only one sentence.)
MLA formatted (e.g., Times New Roman Font, font size 12; double spaced; one-inch margins, etc.)
This essay needs to be written in the third person. (The only exception: If the quotations are in the first or second person, then you do not have to change those the third person.) If tempted to use “I,” use “the reader.”
Unless discussing the author’s biographical information or relevant historical events, when writing about literature, you should use the present verb tense and/or the present perfect verb tense. (The present perfect verb tense uses the helping verbs has or have with the past participle form of the verb. Ex.: has gotten or have arrived or has eaten or have drunk)
Example from “The Lottery”:
The townspeople gather in the town square on June 27th. While the tension is apparent, the reader is not made aware of the reason for this tension until the end of the story.
Work Cited page required: I will provide you a template to follow since you are using the links in Modules and not an actual textbook.
NO secondary sources are needed for this paper. In fact, I would advise against using any for the first paper.
This essay needs a minimum of two page-cited direct quotations from the story. Each quotation should be worked into the essay with a tagline (attributive tag) and not “plopped down” without any lead-in. This oversight is known as a “dropped quotation.”
“Good Country People” has seventeen pages. Your in-text citations must match the reading link.
You must use the story links given to you in Modules, not other versions/editions/locations.
Paper topics; choose one:
Paper topics; choose one:
1). “The Lottery”: How can a ritual like the lottery continue to be held year after year? Why does
no one move to end it? Is there a modern-day counterpart to this lottery—a situation in which
people continue to act in ways they know to be wrong rather than challenge the status quo? How
to account for such behavior?
2). “The Lottery”: What role do the children play in the ritual? How can you explain their
presence in the story? Do they have a symbolic role?
3). “Good Country People”: How would you describe the relationship between Joy/Hulga and
her mother? Do you think that the relationship will change after the story’s conclusion?
4). “Good Country People”: What is the symbolic meaning of Joy/Hulga’s wooden leg? How
does her own view of it differ from the reader’s as the story proceeds?
5). “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”: In what sense is the generation gap—the
failure of one generation to understand another’s culture, customs, and heroes—central to the
story?
6). “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”: Many see this story as heavily symbolic,
even allegorical, with elements of myth, dream, and fairy tale woven throughout. Do you think
such analysis adds something vital to the readers’ understanding of the story, or do you think the
story could be explained in much simpler terms?
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