The Lottery

The Lottery

By Shirley Jackson

Pre-reading

What is justice? 

In my opinion, justice is what's fair. It's making sure everyone has the right to the same things

List Traditions you have with your family:

cutting down a Christmas tree

Plot/Reaction

Describe the community/town in this short story.

WEIRD

What happened to Mrs. Hutchinson? Why?

mrs. hutchinson was stoned. Like...literally, the town took a pile of rocks and just go ape and thug life her. Its pretty intense. They end up killing her for a good harvest. How her death is related to food idk but whatever

setting- very life like, alive.

children- collecting stones, participating boistrous play, represents innocence

men- congregating, discussing rain, tractors, takes, smiled rather than laughed.

Women- stant by mens side, speak and gossip

Mr. Summers- participates in the community/leader, devoted to activities.round faced jovial man.

Mr. Graves- helps with the lottery

Tess- jovial, very dynamic character

Point of View- third person objective

Conflicts- Tess vs. Society

Exposition- town center, june 27th, people are congregating at the town square, waiting for my summers to come with the black box

Climax- tess wins the lottery

Rising Action

- all heads pick out of the black box

- bill picks a dot

-tess goes ape

- all of the family picks out of the box

Falling action- the people pick out stonesand encircle her

resolution- tess yells it isnt fair and the villagers pillage her

Foreshadowing- the year went too quick for a villager- they collect stones in the beginning- everyones nervous

mr.graves

irony- the lottery, was expected to be a good thing

Themes- tradition should be questioned

speak up to injustices, even when they arent happening to you

By the Waters of Babylon

By the Waters of Babylon
Author: Stephen Vincent Benét

Prereading:
Do you believe we process information too fast?
No, at this point in time I like the convenience of our technology. I also get the chance to communicate with may dad who's in afghanistan. Without this technology the communication barrier would be much harder and slower to overcome.

What's you view on technological advancements?
My view is that technological advancements only help our world, the only problem is they aren't equally distributed.

Plot/Reaction (include summary):
First person
People of the hills:

• strict
  
• Spiritual
• polytheistic
• hunter/gatherer society
• primitive
• still read and write the old writings

Forest People:

• forgot old writings
• eat grubs from trees
• priets don't wear white robes
• animosity w/ people of the hills

list places that the protagonist visits on his journey out east/

List two questions you have:

how did the world end itself?

Is anyone left behind?

1 Quote

Harrison Bergeron

Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Prereading: What is eternity?

Eternity is the whole big picture of time, it never ends.


Plot/Reaction:

1. who is harrison bergeron?
The son of George and Hazel bergeron, a rebel against the 2081 Government.

2. how does harrison challenge the government's handicap program?
Harrison is extremely gifted, making it hard for the government to disable him. He also says he's done with the government.

Questions: 2 questions you have
1. Whats the point of the weights?
2. Could this actually happen?

Quote: one significant quote that reveals something important.

"Harrison Bergeron, age fourteen," she said in a grackle squawk, "has just escaped from jail, where he was held on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government. He is a genius and an athlete, is under-handicapped, and should be regarded as extremely dangerous."

This gives a basic idea of what the government is like at this point in itme.


E-book page 21

Some Handicaps:
Masks
Radio Transmitter
sandbags/birdshot
chains
hardsire
red rubber nose
shaved eyebrows
speech impediments



Plot Line
Exposition: Harrison is in Jail, parents are disabled, its 2081 and everyone is equal

Rising Action: Harrison breaks out, he's on tv, he say's hes the emporer, diana walks in

Climax: Harrison is shot

Falling actino tv turns of, hazel and george dont remember it,


Quote Sandwich

Claim: The community at this point in time is very unfair, and communist.

He tried to think a little about the ballerinas. They weren’t really very good – no better than anybody else would have been, anyway. They were burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in. George was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn’t be handicapped. But he didn’t get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts.

Quotation Sandwiches

In the initial pages of this short story, Tom Benecke's avaricious nature drives him to follow the yellow sheet of paper on the ledge of his apartment.

When thinking of what Tom could possibly do to retrieve the paper, his mind goes wild with ideas. Then he thinks he could leave it there and redo the work. He quickly realizes that it would take forever and not be nearly good enough to get him the raise he wanted.

"For many seconds he believed he was going to abandon the yellow sheet, that there was nothing else to do. The work could be duplicated. But it would take two months, and the time to present this idea was now, for use in the spring displays. He struck his fist on the window ledge. Then he shrugged. Even though his plan was adopted, he told himself, it wouldn’t bring him a raise in pay—not immediately, anyway, or as a direct result. It won’t bring me a promotion either, he argued—not of itself."

Tom's quick reasoning shows how frustrated, and fixated on the reward that lies ahead. This later causes him to risk valuable things for money.
In the short story we find that Tom Benecke doesn't think about the consequences of his actions.

Here we find Tom just acting on impulse when the paper flies out of the window, He doesn't really have a plan of action, other than retrieving the sticky note.

On a sudden impulse, he got to his feet, walked to the front closet, and took out an old tweed jacket; it would be cold outside. He put it on and buttoned it as he crossed the room rapidly toward the open window. In the back of his mind he knew he'd better hurry and get this over with before he thought too much, and at the window he didn't allow himself to hesitate.

His carelessness not only reduces his chances of retrieveing the paper, but it also puts his life in danger

Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket

Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket
By Jack Finney
October 8, 2008

Pre-reading: Priorities

1. Family 2. Collin (Boyfriend)/ Friends 3. School 4. Extracarricular Acvtivities 5. Personal Happiness/ Health

Plot Summary:

Toms Beneke is a man who is trying to gain superiority and success within his company. He starts working on a project that would show how effective a display would be for the company. The information gathered is recorded on a single sheet of paper. This information took months to gather. On the night that the story takes place his wife goes to a movie and invites him, he declines to work on the project. Oddly enough, the paper which contains all of the information flies out of the window and is stuck on a ledge outside. He decides that the only way to retrieve the paper is to climb onto the ledge and get it. Once he's on the ledge he realizes what a flawed plan it is. He shakes and panics. In this state of panic he thinks about the past few months and realizes how much he's been ignoring his family. He then decides to climb back to the window, but he bumps it shut. He can't open it without falling, so he tries to get peoples attention. He fails at this and decides to punch the window. He sets the paper down with the pencil on top of it. The paper flies out of the window and he laughs and heads out the door to find his wife.

Quotes: "Very slowly, sliding his forehead down the trough of the brick corner and bending his knees, he lowered his body toward the paper lying between his outstretched feet."

"He saw, in that instant, the Loew's theater sign, blocks ahead past Fiftieth Street; the miles of traffic signals, all green now; the lights of cars and street lamps; countless neon signs; and the moving black dots of people. And a violent instantaneous explosion of absolute terror roared through him. For a motionless instant he saw himself externally--bent practically double, balanced on this narrow ledge, nearly half his body projecting out above the street far below--and he began to tremble violently, panic flaring through his mind and muscles, and he felt the blood rush from the surface of his skin"

Group 8: Sammy and Sergio

Theme

1. Don't get so caught up in events that you forget about your family.

2. Don't put yourself in a dangerous situation for something that isn't worth the trouble.

Plot line:

Exposition: Tom Beneke writes the paper, and we find the importance of the paper, hes in his house, but the paper flies away.

Rising Action: he goes out to get the paper, he's stuck on the ledge, scared, the window shuts.

Climax: grabbing paper, punches window.

Falling action: jumping into the window, the paper flying away.

Resolution: him finding his wife. and going on with his life