In Shirley Jackson's short story, "The Lottery", the main theme is how traditions lose their meaning due to human forgetfulness. This can cause horrible consequences to occur. The story is set in a small town, 'on the morning of June 27th'. It opens with false innocence, using children, tricking the reader into an unaware state. The reader almost expects the Lottery to be nothing but a harmless game. The story goes on to be not as innocent as we thought. The Lottery isn’t a harmless game they play. It’s an event that happens once a year to escape the sin of all the townsmen. To place all the
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