The lottery
Storyboard Text
- Tessie
- Introduction / ExpositionThis story takes place in a small village of only 300 people. It is a warm summer day in the pleasant, nourishing town. The villagers gather in the town square for the annual lottery drawing. Children are playing, making piles of stones, while the women gossip and the men congregate
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- Rising ActionThe story builds and gets more exciting when all the men come forward to draw slips of paper out of the black lottery box. As the family's names are called out, comments from the crowd express remorse for those drawing
- ClimaxAs a result of Bill Hutchinson drawing the paper, his entire family must participate in a second drawing. Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson and their three children draw more slips of paper out of the box. However, this time, it is Mrs. Tessie Hutchinson who has drawn the paper marked with the dreaded black dot.
- Falling ActionThe village started to circle around Tessie and then everyone starts to pick up stones, then Tessie tries to stop them but someone threw a rock at the side of her head
- Tessie
- DenouementThen everyone starts to throw the stone at her and she then dies.
- Tessie
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