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Film: The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

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Today in english I watched a mini movie based on the short story, “The lottery”, by Shirley Jackson. It was a very odd and strange movie. First, they talk about a tradition within their town involving all the families; the tradition isn’t any normal act. To explain, all of the town people gather once a year to draw small papers out of a black box to see who gets stoned. Stoned as in getting rocks thrown at you, not getting high. All of the men of the families have picked a small paper, they have to look at who has the black dot in the middle. Then, out of the picked family, a family member is chosen to be stoned. Next, the chosen family member gets stones thrown at them by all of the town members; this tradition is a brutal and horrifying
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