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Traditions And Symbols In The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

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Traditions that are outdated have a negative impact on people’s lives. Through analyzing the symbols in the short story it illustrates that traditions are not easy to change when society has accepted them as their way of life which can result in destruction.

Mr. Summers displays the black wooden box in the centre of the crowd establishing to the villagers that it was time to proceed with their tradition being that “tradition... was represented by the black box” (Jackson). The author uses the black box as a symbol to define tradition which was a good analogy. Shirley Jackson also never reveals the outcome of the true purpose of the black box until the end of the story keeping her audience wondering what the significance is. Shirley uses
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