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How The Lottery By Shirley Jackson Demonstrates The Consequences Of Following A Tradition

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Shirley Jackson's 'the lottery' demonstrates the dangers of traditions because the villagers' actions highlight the harmful consequences of following a tradition without understanding its purpose. The tradition of the village was to sacrifice someone from the village to be able to get good crops the next year. In danger of tradition there traditions were passed down but they where wrong they did it because they saw there mother do it. In the story 'The Lottery' the small village was a village with a very weird tradition. They will have a lottery for the whole village and there will be one winner, but the price was not what they thought. The price is that you will get selected to be sacrificed for the village for the outcome of getting better
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