The Lottery Shirley Jackson

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It's short story by Shirley Jackson it's one of the most famous short stories in American literature. This short story talks about odd lottery in a small village. People in the village are gathering every year in the square to participate in the lottery and Mr. Summers runs the lottery. The children starts to collecting the stones, then all the villagers comes to the square because the lottery will start. Mr. Summers arrives in the square with a black box, inside the box they have slips of paper and there is one paper has a black dot on it. Who will choose the paper on the black dot they will stone him or her until death. Mr. Summers mixes up the slips of paper in the box and he starts calling names. After he finishes calling names, Bill Hutchinson