![]() This tradition has been used for so many years and includes many rituals that the town has just forgotten about. ![]() but in this village, where there were only about three hundred people, the whole lottery took less than two hours,”. The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o’clock in some towns there were so many people that the lottery took two days and had to be started on June 2th. “The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. The tragic story starts off with the town gathering together for what they call “the lottery”. After reading this I found many things similar to how society is today and how many people are randomly victimized and killed for no reason at all. She argues this by showing us the different personalities of each character and how they portray the brutality that makes the story. ![]() ![]() Jackson argues that tradition should not be followed blindly and that blindly following it can lead to the murder of innocent people. In the story, “The Lottery”, Shirley Jackson tells us a heartbreaking story of a town that murders someone every year as a tradition their village holds. ![]()
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