YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Shocking Short Story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Essays 241 - 270
home. That ended their affair and the couple saw each other only one more time, for "one sorrowful and bitter drink" (Ford, 2009)....
May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...
boy fell from the car platform, and two years prior to that, a youngster lost his life when he slipped while walking the tracks an...
friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...
Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...
that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...
viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...
this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...
Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...
a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...
conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...
She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...
of creation are vastly different" (Anonymous Selected Portions of the "Enuma Elish" enumaeli.htm). "The six days of creation i...
other words it compels the reader to say, "What?!" or "Whoah. What happens next?" or "Wow, how did this happen?" Any combination ...
this only comes in the form of regret at the end. In fact, if anyone were to be bitter about things, it would have to be the gra...
anxiety. It serves to house the blame for the narrators actions. And, in terms of imagery, the ending of this classic tale speaks ...
this story that Dees mother has always secretly longed for acceptance from Dee. Mrs. Johnson was always amazed by her daughters "...
era has wielded its impact on the mother and her young daughter who moves through the one temporary home after another, for the mo...
a lady....
life is at stake as the narrator expresses the fact that a man will actually freeze to death if he cannot get a fire going. The ...
she is known for. This particular compilation of stories was written prior to her incredible fame and would thus indicate that she...
woman who is significant, but rather how she makes the male character feel. This is particularly true of young women, who almost f...
journey, he prefers to run from the prophecy. He thinks he is doing the right thing, much like Ruebens belief that he is doing the...
a mother to do that. As Granny closes her eyes for "just a minute," Porter us an indication of how her life has been lived. She ha...
than relating the events of a shopping trip. "Shopping is really the story of a mothers (Mrs. Dietrichs) relationship with her t...
no simple way, for an old culture to adjust to a new one. New and Old World Beliefs The primary character in this story is the...
who they had both known was sent to the hospital after the game that day. Grimes, not realizing the Lardner is a reporter, and Lar...
great pain, screaming, the arrogance of the doctor comes out in the following: "But her screams are not important. I dont hear the...
is mystical and unexplainable, in the house. They understand that they cannot necessarily see what is taking place, or truly put t...