Lots of points !

1- in shirley jackson’s “the lottery,” tessie stands in the center of a cleared space as the villagers move toward her with stones. how does this event affect the stories plot?

a. it acts as the exposition of the story because it shows what a villagers day before the lottery takes place.

b. it acts as the turning point in the story by showing tessie finally learned what her faith will be.

c. it acts as part of the stories rising action by showing that to see what is right to say drawing wasn’t fair.

d. it acts as the falling action of the story by showing what happens to the person who wins the lottery.

2- read this excerpt from the lottery by shirley jackson.

people begin to look around to see the whole hutchinsons. bill hutchinson standing quiet, staring down at the paper in his hand. suddenly, tessie hutchinson shouted to mr. summers “ you didn’t give him time enough to take you take you if you want me to. i saw you. it wasn’t fair! “

“be a good sport, tessie,” mrs. delacroix called, and mrs. graves said, “all of us took the same chance.”

“shut up, tessie,” bill hutchinson said.

“ well, everyone,” mr. summers saying,”that was done pretty fast, and now we’ve got to be hurrying a little more to get done in time.” he consulted his next list. “bill,” he said “you draw for the family. you got any other households in the hutchinsons?

“there’s don and eva,” mrs. hutchinson yelled. “make them take their chance! ”

“daughters draw with their husbands’ families, tessie,” mr. summers “you know that as well as anyone else.”

“it wasn’t fair,” tessie said.

in shirley jackson “the lottery” how does the contrast between the characters’ view of the lottery and that of readers’ impact the story?

a. the way the children of the town innocently approve of the lottery makes the readers’ view of the lottery as foolish seem misguided and gives the story its conflict.

b. the hutchinsons’ positive view of the lottery throughout the story differs from the readers’ view of the lottery as suspicious from the very start to create humor as the story progresses.

c. tessie’s obviously negative view of the lottery after she wins she conflicts with the readers’ previous view of the lottery as rather mundane to create suspense about why tessie gets so upset.

d. the way the women of the village celebrate and take pride in the lottery goes against the readers’ view of it as a shameful event and gives the text it’s wacky tone.