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The Lottery
The e-book version of ‘The Lottery’ by Shirley Jackson is available for everyone on the cyber world apart from the printed one. It is PDF file digitized by the Middlebury Blog Network. There is Discussion Question after the story for you to discuss and to check your understanding about the story.
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NBZS99. “The Lottery - Part 1 of 2” Online video clip. YouTube. YouTube, 2010. Web. 1 Oct. 2014.
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NBZS99. “The Lottery - Part 2 of 2” Online video clip. YouTube. YouTube, 2010. Web. 1 Oct. 2014.
These are the 1969 film version of Shirley Jackson’s short story, The Lottery. A community of people in a small village follows an annual ritual known as "the Lottery". The tradition is believed to ensure a good harvest, yet evokes dread in the entire town's people.
Base to the short story, The Lottery was produced as an audio movie broadcasted through the ‘NBC Presents: Short Story’, a half-hour radio program offering dramatizations of contemporary American short stories, from Hollywood radio channel in 1951.
The article is about The Lottery’s feedbacks. The writer of the article is from The New Yorker, the publisher that published ‘The Lottery’. It contains many opinions toward the story. Some parts are the criticism from the authorities in the literature field (also few of movie field). Another is from the readers’ letters which were sent from all over the country to The New Yorker office after ‘The Lottery’ was published.
The site is full of many topics covering all of The Lottery issues. Summary, themes, quotes, etc. are what you can learn from this site. Each topic contains some more contents that provide you precise information about the topic. Apart from all content that help you absorb the story, there also are quizzes to let you know how much you understand the story.