An intruding short story with an interesting twist. It is amazing how the author conveys so much through such a limited number of pages and the subtle way she coxes the readers to think about the story after finishing it.
We live in a world where a 30-year-old man can marry and so legally rape a 10-year-old girl, aided and abetted by her relations - and we really need Ms. Jackson to tell us that blindly following traditions might be a bad thing.Honestly, the history around this story strongly reinforces the stereotyp...
I'm not very big on short stories but tonight my husband decided to read this one out loud while we were eating dinner. It was small being only 30 pages long but it sure packed a big punch. The Lottery was a creepy little story. I thought of it as a mix between dystopian and horror. It made me w...
Yo no suelo ver películas de terror, porque soy super asustadiza. Soy de esas que grita en el cine mientras los demás están tranquilos, de las que no puede dormir después de ver una película donde haya un exorcismo o alguna clase de fantasma. Siendo sincera me dan miedo hasta las películas de muerte...
While I can see how this story was radical and terrifying in its time, in the age of "The Hunger Games", it is not quite as shocking as it once was. The thing that I found most interesting, most chilling, was the way the people kept insisting that they should "get on with it" and "wrap it up". The c...
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is extremely well written and disturbing story about demons within ourselves. Loved every word of it, because every word had a meaning. Scary, gothic, playful and sick story about murderous girl and her sister. I read Jackson`s scandalous story "The Lottery" as w...
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