the lottery

“It was a humid afternoon as the towns people picked up their rocks and took aim, even little john picked up a few pebbles.” PAGE 2 in the book The lottery by Shirley Jackson that is exactly what happens. For the size of this book you would think of a boring little story. This book is a flat out mouths open shocker. It also is a puzzle that is missing a few pieces, at the end the author lets you decide what will happen.

The thing I liked the most about this book was the story. The author really put some thought in this book giving the pieces of the puzzle to the reader in the wrong order mixing it up a bit to confuse the reader. In the end there were still some pieces of the puzzle missing witch left the reader wanting more. Also the word choice was great. Here is a small example page 16 “there was a general sigh”. There could have been nothing in front of sigh, or small could have been there.

Even though there was surplus of pros there were still a lot of cons. This book for me was not a very hard read, but it was the story line that made it challenging. While the author mixed things up a bit, he could have made it a little bit more understandable because up until the end you could not understand what you were reading. Also the author needs to have a better target because she kept jumping from difficult to easy reading levels, which I thought made it more difficult to read. Over all that was all she could have done better at describing the main character more insignificantly. It felt like she really had the power to stop the people and redraw the lottery. Also the author could have made the enemy more powerful. It made me feel like they were old weak and scrawny.

Overall this book had bad and some good decisions. The author made this book a flat out mouth dropper; she did this with a high sense of suspense. This book has two very good lessons to it; one is doing complain because it could be worse. The second one which would probably be the most notable one is that things are not what they seem to be.