Study Session

"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson

Read the story HERE and focus your initial notes on these thematic ideas:  the human capacity for violence, the power of tradition & ritual, mob psychology and conformity, emotional detachment and lack of empathy, the banality of evil, the hypocrisy of sacrifice

Read the textbook pages on Point of View (Pg. 28- 40):  (you can stop when you come to "Symbol") including the practice passages.  Make notes in your journal about HOW each type of point of view can create particular effects in literature.  Focus extra effort on the passage from "The Lottery" on pgs. 32-33.  

Hannah Arendt and the "Banality of Evil"

Chernobyl & The Banality of Evil

Hiding Truth at All Costs