The story is about a lottery, which is evident because of the title "The Lottery" but it's not the kind of lottery that you would participate. The story takes place on the 27th of June, in the morning, in a small village in New England. The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o'clock. The lottery, in other villages took two days and started on the 26th of June, but in this village, where there were only about three hundred people, the whole lottery took less than two hours. The children were picking up stones and gathering them for the lottery (foreshadowing). Later on, when everything is setup, every person had to pick a paper from "the black box" (foreshadowing), even the children.

The end of the short story "The Lottery" was unexpected, but it was possible to predict the end because the author had left some foreshadowing. The first hint that lets us see that something is not right is when the boys started picking up rocks. It states in the text that: "Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example, selecting the smoothest and roundest stones; Bobby and Harry Jones and Dickie Delacroix [...]eventually made a great pile of stones in one corner of the square and guarded it against the raids of the other boys". After reading that part, we're asking ourselves why are the boys collecting stones and guarding it? This let us know that the stones will play an important role in the story later on. Also the other hint in the story is this part concerning the women: "They stood together, away from the pile of stones in the corner, and their jokes were quiet and they smiled rather than laughed". After reading that part, the question that comes to our mind is "Why are the women afraid of the pile of stones?". It should be the moment where everyone is talking about the lottery and telling other people t

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