The Lottery

The lottery is a short story by Shirley Jackson.It starts out with a cheerful tone and has a frightening ending.The first few paragraphs describes the weather as being nice and sunny. There were flowers blossoming and the grass was richly green. It also describes the activities of the village people before the lottery and the collecting of stones by the children. The paragraphs makes the lottery seem festive. The next few paragraphs describe the preparation of the lottery by Mr Summers and Mr Grave. It starts getting a bit nervous in the next few paragraphs as the people start to pick their pieces of paper out of the box. The following paragraphs make the readers get a very bad feeling, as the picked people narrows down to a family and a member of the family starts protesting. The end was very unexpected, as readers find out what the villagers would do to the chosen person with stones and rocks. I was shocked and taken completely by surprise when I got to the end of the book. However, I think that this short story is quite good to read and it has a interesting twist at the end. Readers will almost certaintly be taken by surprise when they get to the end of the book.