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A 3 page essay that discusses the characterization of Tessie in Jackson's short story "The Lottery." No additional sources cited.
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people believe that a human death is required for a good harvest to ensure a plentiful crop. Tessie, like everyone else in the village, has no qualms about participating in
the yearly ritual, but she has an epiphany of understanding that the lottery is evil when she is chosen as its victim. The beginning of the story carefully sets up
the situation, which makes it clear that there is nothing extraordinary about this ancient ritual, as the men have obviously just come in from the field, women wear their everyday
housedresses and it is handled in a routine way. There are stock characters in this story, but they are intentionally used by the author as stock characters in order to
make the point that evil can be mundane, part of everyday life and, therefore, not easily recognized. Old Man Warner, for example, is such a stock character, as he voices
the rationale for the lottery, "Lottery in June, corn by heavy soon" (Jackson 198). As a stock character, Old Man Warner is the voice of tradition. Tessie is late
to the ceremony and jokes with her neighbors as her husband is called upon to choose a slip of paper from the black box. At this point, her motivation and
understanding of the lottery is the same as her neighbors. She complacently believes that it will never touch her family. This goes along with the idea that the victims chosen
by chance somehow deserve their fate. Societies often call upon people to make sacrifices for the good of the whole. For example, the practice of drafting people into the army,
which was in place in the US until after the Vietnam era, uses this logic. When Bill Hutchinson selects a slip of paper with a black dot on it,
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