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Symbols In Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

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Imagine every year there was a lottery. Unlike the lottery where you could win a million dollars! This lottery is different, and you didn't have a choice to participate or not. And in this lottery the winner did not get a million dollars but a face full of stones. When and where would something so horrible take place you ask? In a small village in the book “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. Why would someone ever do something so terrible you ask, to get rid of bad luck and to boost the crops. The people who live in this village have been executing this ritual ever since the oldest man old man Warner could remember and he’s been alive for 77 years! The townspeople believe that by sacrificing someone once a year will boost the growth of
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