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Foreshadowing In The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

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In Shirley Jackson's short story “The Lottery” there is a lot of foreshadowing shown throughout the story. Based off of the title and the first paragraph we can figure out that the story is of course about a lottery for something. The subject of this lottery remains unknown for a great portion of the story, however. Shortly after this first paragraph, the second paragraph shows some boys playing around the town gathering and piling up stones. “Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones and the other boys soon followed his example… Bobby and Harry Jones and Dickie Delacroix eventually made a pile of stones in one corner.” This sentence seems to simply describe some young boys playing together during summer vacation. Later on,
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