If someone has read the short story “The Lottery” please help answer these questions. 1. Identify the setting of the story?
2. Name (3) themes in the story?
3. Why did Shirley Jackson (the author) include the character Old Man Warner?
4. What is the connotation (or meaning) of the name Mr. Summers?
5. What is the connotation of the name Mr. Graves?
6. What is the irony of winning THIS type of lottery?
7. Why is the “sunny day” ironic?
8. What do people who participate in the lottery believe it will do for their town?
9. In what ways is the symbol “black” used in this story (give examples)?
10. What does Old Man Warner’s character represent in the text?
a. People’s fear of death
b. People’s desire for change
c. People’s violent tendencies
d. People’s desire to cling to traditions
11. “Guess we better get started, get this over with, so we can go back to work.” How does that statement demonstrate how the characters feel about the lottery?

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it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.