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Analysis Of The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

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The Lottery written by Shirley Jackson is short story that takes place in a town of approximately only three hundred people. On June 27th each year the villagers meet in the middle of Town Square, this is where the lottery takes place. The villagers wait for the arrival of Mr. Summers and the black box. Each family through the town is represented by a white piece of paper; the heads of the household or the family representatives take turns drawing from a black box that contains the three hundred pieces of papers. Mr. Summers the night before marks a black dot on one piece, indicating the winner of the ‘lottery’. The winner of the lottery is Mrs. Hutchinson; everyone then closes in on her and stones her to death. The people are not sure why
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