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What Is The Dark Side Of Humanity In Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

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This story represents the dark side of Humanity. According to the title, you would think it was a convivial function that would benefit the people in the community, but the true purport of the lottery turns out to be a starkly sinister and unthinkable act in today's society with the triumpher getting stoned. This ritual had been observed for virtually a century if not longer. Evidence of this fact is conspicuous according to old man Admonitor who had managed to be fortuitous enough to survive through seventy-seven lotteries, a fact that he was proud of and rightly so. Though it is not evident until the cessation of the story the ebony box represented death in lieu of prosperity. Mr. Summers suggested that an incipient box should be made, since
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