The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, is a short story about an annual lottery drawing in a small town. The story takes place in a small New England town. Every year, a lottery is held in which one person is chosen at random to be stoned to death by the village residents. The lottery has been practiced by city dwellers for over seventy years. Using symbolism, Jackson uses names, objects, and setting to disguise the true meaning and intent of the lottery. The names of each character have important meaning for the lottery. Jackson uses symbolic names to indicate and foreshadow what will happen after the lottery takes place. The name “Dellacroix” (Jackson, 2) means “Of the Cross” in French. In this sentence, “Summers” (Jackson, 4 years old) is the name of the conductor of the lottery. The lottery takes place during the summer and Mr. Summer's assistant is "Mr. Summer". Graves” (Jackson. 4). This suggests that there will be a "Tomb" during the "summer". The author uses names to foreshadow the winner's prize: a violent stoning from the townspeople. The objects in the story also represent religious and symbolic meanings for the lottery. This sentence “Bobby Martin had already filled his pockets with stones, and the other boys soon followed his example, selecting the smoothest and roundest stones; » (Jackson, 2) shows that young children collected smooth stones. Most rocks are jagged, knife-shaped and tapered. The reason they picked up the smoothest stones was because the jagged rocks did it the most. The author paints a portrait of a town where “the flowers bloomed abundantly and the grass was a rich green.” (Jackson, 1). Jackson wants readers to believe that the town was ordinary and innocent, but ends with a shocking ending of a terrible stoning. Many readers were shocked, they thought Jackson's story was fiction, but religious persecution is happening all over the world and readers could not accept the horrible