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Blindly Following Tradition In Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

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Tradition is something everyone in the world has gotten to experience. These types of traditions may be good and some may be bad. The short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson shows us the dangers of blindly following tradition and how Black Friday and The Short Story both set an example of blindly following tradition.
Blindly following traditions just like in The Lottery in many ways is when you follow the steps and rules that were set in place, it mainly focuses on doing what others do because of the tradition regardless if it's bad. In the short story
The Lottery, Shirley Jackson gives us a vivid descriptive details about the terrifying ordeal. The Lottery is about a community that each year gather, they then have a black box that has
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