The Black Box: Symbolic Of Death And Faded Traditions
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While the setting of Shirley Jackson’s, The Lottery, takes place on a clear, sunny, June day, it does not take long for the skies to turn gray as she introduces the readers to the black box. The black box is the central symbol of the short story. It suggest both death and necessity of change du ....
Middle of paper
.... and another year underfoot in the post office, and sometimes it was set on a shelf in the Martin grocery and left there.” Death is not something that people deal with everyday. Human beings deal with death very similar to the way that the towns people stored the black box. People place their experiences with death in different rooms and shelves of their hearts.
The black box also symbolizes the need for a new tradition and the reluctance of the townspeople to accept change. The black box ....
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Page count: 3 (approximately 250 words per page)
