Lottery II English

1. Describe the setting, using specific details from the story in your answer
- The story started with a bright filled sunny morning with clear skies and rich green grass, this took place in a village with over about Three Hundred people. The story, however, takes place in the square which is in between the post office and the bank, where all of the villagers are gathering around a black box for the lottery. in one of the corners of the square, there was a big pile of stones which was put off to the side till later notice.

2. Explain the feelings of most people in town toward the lottery.
- Old people (People old to the town) - Their fine with it and don't understand why others want to change it as they've learned to accept it and have grown so used to it, it's like a tradition for them.
- New people (New people to the town) - Nervous around the topic and try to find ways to avoid the outcome or just plainly want to hurry up the progress of the Lottery so they can leave and get back to what they were doing before.

3. What evidence is there that the lottery has been going on for a long time
- One of the people in the story (Old Man Warner) says "Seventy-Seventh year I been in the lottery" Indicating that the 'Lottery' has been going on for decades.

4. what is Old Man Warner's attitude about those who would like to change things?
- He felt disgusted towards them that they were trying to change the 'Lottery' after they've been doing it the same way for possibly decades.

5. Explain how the lottery works.
- The people of the village crowd around a black box, where their names are called and they take out a piece of paper (Men) They can't open the paper till everyone has grabbed a piece. Once everyone has grabbed a paper from the box they open it up. in the box, there is a single piece of paper with a dot on it. In the first round, the men of a household pull out a paper, and like before once they all have a piece of paper they open it up, and if one of the men from the family who pulled out the paper has a dot on it. Then the person from that certain family that pulled out the paper with the dot will go up again with the rest of their family and pull out a piece of paper (The paper that had the dot was stuck back in) Once all of the family has pulled out a piece of paper they open it up and like the first round they open it up to see if there is a dot.

Now before the Lottery started a bunch of rocks were grabbed and stuck in a pile.
Whoever in the last round got the dot was pushed into the center and the rocks that were collected were thrown at that person from that family that got the paper with the dot on it.

6. In what way is the title, "The Lottery", misleading? Why would the author want to trick the reader by having a misleading title?
- So when they start off the book it gives off a positive feel/vibe to it. So that when they reach the end they'll be in a surprise for the dark turn to the story and the true meaning that the word 'Lottery' meant for the book.