Themes:

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson contained many themes within the story.

-One of the biggest themes of the story was Violence. One of jackson’s main reason for writing the story was to draw attention to the inhumanity of violence. The practice of the lottery in the story was to draw a person’s name to be stoned to death.

-Another theme was tradition. The lottery became a tradition to the villagers in the story because it has been around and practiced for a very long time. The story showed how tradition is very important to some people and how difficult it is to change or abandon it even if it is extremely wrong and cruel.

– Another theme of the story is sexism. The story showed that men were inferior to women. They were the head of the family and the ones that draw for the family name in the lottery while the woman just stood there without a say in the process.

– Family is one other theme from “The Lottery.” Every member of the family participated in the practice of the lottery including children. The villagers did not care about the value of family and even enjoyed stoning each other even if the person being stoned was a family member.

Settings:

The setting of the lottery is in a small town. On a clear sunny morning on July 27th, the villagers began preparing for the lottery that would start at ten in the morning.

Genre:

The genre of “The Lottery” is horror fiction. It is a gruesome story about playing the lottery and the winner would be stoned to death by the whole village including their family.