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Written Text (2.1) Essay Notes
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- 1Main Characters- Tessie Hutchinson - the 'winner'
- Mr Summers - organiser
- Mrs Delacroix & Mrs Graves
(convo between 2 characters)
- Bill Hutchinson - winners husband
- Mrs Adams & Old Man Warner - 2Main themes / ideas involved- The dangers behind blindly following tradition
- Randomness of persecution
- Concept of vulnerability
- Ideas of society & family - 3Film & AuthorThe Lottery by Shirley Jackson
- 4Intro = - Name of Story & Author - Summary of book - Question reworded - The 3 main pointsThe book ‘The Lottery’ written by Shirley Jackson carefully and deliberately uses specific events in the text to reinforce certain ideas and themes. The Lottery tells the story of an annual ritual that takes place in a small town in contemporary America. The ritual consists of randomly choosing a villager by chance, to be stoned to death. Shirly Jackson utilizes the techniques of symbolism and dialogue with the help of character, theme and setting, to reinforce the main idea of the dangers behind blindly following tradition. Other relevant ideas continually displayed throughout the text include; the concept of vulnerability, and the randomness of persecution.
- 51st body paragraph = - 1st point - TEXALExample =
- Mrs Delacriox and Mrs Graves. “Seems like there’s no time at all between lotteries any more.” “Seems like we got through with the last one only last week.”
- Mr Summer says; “Guess we better get started, get this over with, so we can go back to work.”
- Normalisation of the ritual (A & E)
- Ltrw, how we blindly follow traditions - 62nd body paragraph = - 2nd point - TEXAL“Some places have already quit lotteries,” Mrs. Adams said. “Nothing but trouble in that,” Old Man Warner said stoutly. “Pack of young fools.”
- Craziness of removing the ritual - 73rd body paragraph - 3rd point - TEXAL“Be a good sport, Tessie,” Mrs. Delacroix called, and Mrs. Graves said, “All of us took the same chance.”
- No humanity - 8Other points in the text- "The Lottery" (meaning of the name)
- Use of stones as a suttle moment of symbolism
- Convo's about the lottery are so casual and relaxed - 9Summary of textThe Lottery tells the story of an annual ritual that takes place in a small town in contemporary America. The ritual consists of randomly choosing a villager by chance, to be stoned to death.
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- NCEA Level 2 English (Externals Notes ) FlashCards sobre Written Text (2.1) Essay Notes , criado por Humayra Azam em 14-10-2020.
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