Friday, May 18, 2012

The Lottery Response


In the story The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson,  the lottery is thought to be a good thing, but it turns out to be the complete opposite. The story has a few good examples of irony.

One example of irony is when people were all excited about the lottery. All the kids were playing and collecting rocks while they waited for the lottery. Everyone was saying that the lottery was such a good thing and that they should never get rid of it.

Another example was when ms Hutchinson was saying "its not fair!" and was then chosen to be killed. She also arrived late to the lottery. She acted excited and happy at the beginning because she thought she wasn’t going to be chosen.

3 comments:

  1. Good examples, but the introduction and the conclusion could be stronger.

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  2. i like that you used good examples but you paragraphs could be longer, but good overall

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  3. I thought that your examples were very good, but your intro was kind of weak.

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