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How Does Shirley Jackson Use Tradition In The Lottery

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Shirley Jackson uses “The Lottery” to make a point about traditions, rules, and human behavior. To begin, traditions are something that relapse over time. Traditions take time to develop, but once developed people don’t happen to like it to change. In “The Lottery” one of the traditions is preparing the black box for the lottery to take place. In paragraph 5 on page 48 it talks about how there was a story about the present black box that was made by the black box before. The box grew older and got more worn out over time, but it still held its tradition and its purpose. Rules are something that are used to be followed. We have rules all over the world for people to follow. If we didn’t have rules people would go crazy. The lottery itself has
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