"The Lottery" mapped out

Setting
-small village
-June 27th
-10:00 in the morning
-flowers and rich green grass
-clear and sunny

Children
-Children collect stones
-playing
-school just got out [talking about class and teachers]
-represent innocence

Men
-talked about the weather, tractors, taxes
-jokes were quiet and they smiled instead of laugh

Women
-gossiping
-standing by their husbands' sides

Mr. Summers
-participates in the community/leader
-had a lot of energy
-round-faced, jovial man
-summers symbolizes life, and he conducts death

Mr. Graves
- the post guardian
-very ominous name
-stiff

Mrs. Hutchinson
-jovial in the beginning
-dynamic character

Point of View
-objective

Conflicts
-person vs. society: Mrs. Tess Hutchinson vs. society

Exposition
-June 27th and people are congregating in the town center Mr. Summers comes with black box

Rising Action
-the children assemble and the boys start to stuff their pockets with stones and make a stone pile
-the men gathered and talked while waiting for the lottery and the women stood by their husbands
-Mr. Summers arrived with the black box and stirred up the papers inside
-the lottery was declared open
-the official business was done [swearing-in Mr. Summers]
-Mrs. Hutchinson arrives, late. Attention is drawn to her.
-the heads of the household were called upon to take a slip of paper
-there was discussion between people about other places that had given up the lottery, while the papers were being chosen
-Bill Hutchinson chooses the black dot
-Tess objects
-all Hutchinson's pick out of the black box

Climax
Tess "wins" the lottery

Falling Action
-villagers start to casually pick up stones and encircle her

Resolution
-Tess yells "It isn't fair" and the villagers come upon her

Foreshadowing
-the year seems to have gone too quick
-villagers are anxious
-children collect stones
-black box represents death
-mr. graves

Irony
-the lottery was expected to be aout money, when in reality the lottery signified death
-the names

Themes
-traditions should be questioned and changed when neccesary
-speak up to injustices even when they aren't happening to you
-we as humans are both capable of good and evil