The Lottery by Shirley Jackson“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, is a satire on the world and horror story about a long-established custom. A custom is ‘a social convention carried on by tradition and enforced by social disapproval of any violation.’ Jackson has written a wide range of themes including psychological horrors, such as The Haunting of Hill House. ‘According to Jonathan Lethem, Jackson was “one of this century's most luminous and strange American writers” whose " forté was psychology and society, people in other words - people disturbed, dispossessed, misunderstanding or thwarting one another compulsively, people colluding absently in monstrous acts”.’ She loved to write fantasy fiction. The Lottery has a very negative and cruel message. She wrote The Lottery based on human nature and how every human would act at specific circumstances. No matter whom the people are in the culture or the era in which they live in, there have always been and always will be horrid customs thae 27th, as a happy, festive day. In the first part of the story, ‘The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day’, ‘but in this village, where there were only about three hundred people, the whole lottery took less than two hours, so it could begin at ten o'clock in the morning and still be through in time to allow the villagers to get home for noon dinner.’ This festival takes just two hours and then people can go to lunch after the lottery. Readers will be reassured by the first picture of the village. However, they will be upset, when they reach the end of the story.The Lottery involved various messages. Jackson concludes men’s power, male chauvinism as a long-established custom. Children barely listen to mom’s asking, but they quickly move when father asks them to. Another example of chauvinism; ‘Mr. Summers turned to look at her.’, ‘"Wife draws for her husband." Mr. Summers said. "Don't you have a grown boy to do it for you, Janey?" Althou shunned upon. However, 10 or 20 years ago, it was a normal idea. It shows to us the power of a society’s idea. Social’s idea make people believe anything without doubt, because everyone want to be a members in the society.Mr. Summer is the most powerful and wealthiest person in the story. He promotes the lottery, and makes a list without his name on it. His money and power lets him do whatever he wants to do. Like many plots of stories and videogames, this fiction also has a middle monster, who is Mr. Graves. “Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves made up the slips of paper and put them in the box, and it was then taken to the safe of Mr. Summers’ coal company and locked up until Mr. Summers was ready to take it to the square next morning”. Adolf Hitler, who was the leader of the Nazi regime, was the most powerful leader in Germany. The life of Adolf Hitler was seized by an obsession with the Jews. He was always straightforward in regards to his plans. His dream of a racially ‘pure’ empire wouldll-powerful Fuehrer of the criminal Third ReichHolocaust DeathsCountry/RegionEstimateGermany (1938 Borders)130,000Austria65,000Belgium & Luxembourg29,000Bulgaria7,000Czechoslovakia277,000France83,000Greece65,000Hungary & Ukraine402,000Italy8,000Netherlands106,000Norway760Poland & USSR4,565,000Romania220,000Yugoslavia60,000TOTAL6,017,760Source: Hyperlink "http://www1.us.nizkor.org/index.html" Nizkor Project statistics derived from Yad Vashem and Fleming, Hitler and the Final Solution.Mr. Summer and Adolf Hitler have several points. They take the leader position and adopt a policy of fear. The only difference is the size of the background. In 1906, Adolf was permitted to visit Vienna, but he was unable to gain admission to a prestigious art school. His mother developed terminal breast cancer and was treated by Dr. Edward Bloch, a Jewish doctor who served the poor. After an operation which was an excruciatingly painful and expensive treatment with a dangerous drug, she died on December 21he world. That policy was called ‘Nazism.’ ‘Nazism’ will lead on the wrong patch, and then people, who are in the society, would become to evil.People are, after all, animals, rather intelligent ones, but still animals. Some compete constantly for money, which allows them to have basic needs: security, food, shelter and whatever else they need and want. Others are able to realize that they need other people to survive. So, people need people and make groups and societies to help each other. People can be evil or angel, depending on the leader or that society. Today, we live in the most developed era. We can choose our leader for our country, even for a company, because we already learned, through history, how important a leader is. We should keep awake our individuality before falling into an evil nature. Nowadays, it seems that society is on the wrong path. It is not only a leader’s evil nature, but also our own nature.Work Cited PageAdolf Hitler “ The Nazi Genocide” 2009, 15 Feb 2009>
