https://sites.middlebury.edu/individualandthesociety/files/2010/09/jackson_lottery.pdf
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See you hear tonight for thoughts and discussions.
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https://sites.middlebury.edu/individualandthesociety/files/2010/09/jackson_lottery.pdf
See you hear tonight for thoughts and discussions.
Be careful which "lottery" you win!What a coincidence. I'm going to read a story called The Lottery tonight and then I'm going to win the lottery a little later in the night.
It was first published in 1948 in The New Yorker magazine, which is not a place where people were accustomed to finding and reading a horror story. So, folks started to read the tale and then get to the ending, which was horrific and upsetting for little Marge who lived in Cleveland Ohio and didn't like to read anything other than her Harlequin Romance novels. Given the era it was published lends another layer of disturbance to the tale- citizens weren't used to things like The Exorcist, The Omen, Alien, etc. They were used to Bette Davis films and Duke Ellington on the radio. It was somewhat a time of innocence. Here comes Miss Jackson (if you're nasty ) with her tale and this led to many people cancelling their subscription to The New Yorker magazine. It was definitely a controversial story for its time.Don’t know what’s so disturbing about this story, getting stoned doesn’t seem like a bad lottery prize
Uh, okayIt was first published in 1948 in The New Yorker magazine, which is not a place where people were accustomed to finding and reading a horror story. So, folks started to read the tale and then get to the ending, which was horrific and upsetting for little Marge who lived in Cleveland Ohio and didn't like to read anything other than her Harlequin Romance novels. Given the era it was published lends another layer of disturbance to the tale- citizens weren't used to things like The Exorcist, The Omen, Alien, etc. They were used to Bette Davis films and Duke Ellington on the radio. It was somewhat a time of innocence. Here comes Miss Jackson (if you're nasty ) with her tale and this led to many people cancelling their subscription to The New Yorker magazine. It was definitely a controversial story for its time.
Exactly. This was not the normal story to be published in such a magazine.It was first published in 1948 in The New Yorker magazine, which is not a place where people were accustomed to finding and reading a horror story. So, folks started to read the tale and then get to the ending, which was horrific and upsetting for little Marge who lived in Cleveland Ohio and didn't like to read anything other than her Harlequin Romance novels. Given the era it was published lends another layer of disturbance to the tale- citizens weren't used to things like The Exorcist, The Omen, Alien, etc. They were used to Bette Davis films and Duke Ellington on the radio. It was somewhat a time of innocence. Here comes Miss Jackson (if you're nasty ) with her tale and this led to many people cancelling their subscription to The New Yorker magazine. It was definitely a controversial story for its time.
....I’m far and away closer to that time than you young’un and the way he describes it is accurate....Uh, okay
It’s not that I didn’t understand or doubted the accuracy, it just came out of nowhere for a post quoting my dumb wordplay....I’m far and away closer to that time than you young’un and the way he describes it is accurate....
You might want to rethink your Bette Davis thought. Remember, she did Whatever Happened to Baby Jane and Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte.It was first published in 1948 in The New Yorker magazine, which is not a place where people were accustomed to finding and reading a horror story. So, folks started to read the tale and then get to the ending, which was horrific and upsetting for little Marge who lived in Cleveland Ohio and didn't like to read anything other than her Harlequin Romance novels. Given the era it was published lends another layer of disturbance to the tale- citizens weren't used to things like The Exorcist, The Omen, Alien, etc. They were used to Bette Davis films and Duke Ellington on the radio. It was somewhat a time of innocence. Here comes Miss Jackson (if you're nasty ) with her tale and this led to many people cancelling their subscription to The New Yorker magazine. It was definitely a controversial story for its time.
....understood....It’s not that I didn’t understand or doubted the accuracy, it just came out of nowhere for a post quoting my dumb wordplay
No it didn't come out of nowhere. You made your joke and that just showed how our thinking nowadays is. We joke. in general. Not everyone, but it's a more laid back and educated world out there today.It’s not that I didn’t understand or doubted the accuracy, it just came out of nowhere for a post quoting my dumb wordplay