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to do something without believing it is important: After his wife died, he went through the motions of living without really feeling anything.
Odysseus faces a number of challenges on his way home, including:
- sailors captivated by the lotus-eaters
- a battle with Polyphemus, a cyclops
- a storm sent by Poseidon
- an encounter with a witch
- being captivated by the Sirens
- encounters with the monsters Scylla and Charybdis
- punishment by Zeus
His entire journey home is ridden with challenges.
“The Lottery” is a short story written by the famous writer Shirley Jackson in 1943. The Lottery tells the story of a small village that holds a lottery every year to decide which person from the village is going to be stoned by the other villagers. However, the reader does not know about this until the very end. In the first paragraph, Jackson describes the lottery in a way that it creates uncertainty. She starts creating so much suspense that the reader may feel uneasy, anxious or disturbed since he/she may not fully understand what the lottery is about. As far as we know, lotteries are generally played in a different way, with papers or numbers and players usually receive a nice reward, such as money and nice objects. However, in Jackson’s story, the reader is not sure why the villagers are meeting up in the center of the village or why the children from the village are collecting and stones. So, the way Jackson starts this story makes the readers read until the very end in order to find out what is actually going on.
