Part one of term paper
Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" is a short story with a memorable and chilling plot. It tells the tale of a town in which the random and systematic execution of a citizan has become a yearly occourrence. Beyond the horror of the plot lies an even more powerful theam: "great evil can be masked by mindless adherence to tradition." Even though ...

Part two of term paper
... used to stand just so..... others belived that he was supposed to walk among the people, but years and years ago this part of the ritual had been allowed to laspe (511)." With this in mind, the audience wonders why the lottery has continued. The author uses this question to emphasis her theam for the story. Great evil can be masked by mindless adherence to tradition. For example, the author states, "Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual, and lost the original black box, they remembered t ...