The Lottery Storyboard
Storyboard Text
- Beginning/Exposition
- Bobby!
- Beginning/Esposition
- "Little late today, folks. Some of you fellows want to give me a hand"?
- Beginning/Esposition
- As children play and pile rocks, parents conversate and call their kids back before the annual lottery begins.
- Beginning/Exposition
- "Clean, forgot what day it was."
- As the lottery begins to be conducted, Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves appear before the crowd, Mr. Graves holding a stool and Mr. Summers carrying the "black box".
- Rising Action
- "Now, I'll read the names-heads of families...Hutchinson"
- Mr. Martin and his son Baxter help hold the "black box" in place" as Mr.Summers stirs up the papers which determine which family gets to participate in the lottery.
- Rising action (conflict appears)
- "Three."
- "How many kids, Bill?"
- The lottery is set to begin shortly. However, a hurrying Tessie Hutchinson races to the scene claiming that she forgot it was the day of the lottery. Mrs. Delacroix assures Tessie that she came in the nick of time.
- You're in time, though. They're still talking away up there.
- One by one, the names-heads of families are called to draw a paper/"lottery ticket" from the box. Tessie encourages her husband to draw.
- "Get up there, Bill."
- Bill draws a paper with a black dot, signifying that his family will participate in this year's lottery. Tessie protests.
- "It wasn't fair, You didn't give him enough time to choose".
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