... means someone will lose their life. Each head of household, usually a male, is require to draw a paper from a black box. The family representative who draws out the slip with a black dot will then redraw. This time, the black box contains enough white slips representing each member of the family minus one, which will be replacing with a slip containing a black ... dot. Whatever family member draws the paper with the black dot is the final winner but their winning will result in being stoned to death. Jackson's central idea is that the societies blindly follow traditions, cultural practi...

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... is closely associated with death. The black box foreshadows that something bad is going to happen. Inside that black box were slips of paper and one had a black dot on it. The black dot was also a symbol of death and again which foreshadows the bad that would follow later in the story. The names of the characters in the story are also ... ...

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... is closely associated with death. The black box foreshadows that something bad is going to happen. Inside that black box were slips of paper and one had a black dot on it. The black dot was also a symbol of death and again which foreshadows the bad that would follow later in the story. The names of the characters in the story are also ... ...

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... . Hutchinson is late to the lottery, and she then says" "Clean forgot what day it was." Then unexpectedly her family gets the paper with the black dot, and Mrs. Hutchinson get the second paper with the dot; which means she will be stoned to death. Makes the reader think, "if only she had stayed home." Her forgetting what day it was shows ... ...

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... box, the three legged stool, and the stones all symbolize death in one way or another. The black box obviously symbolizes death because it contains the slip with the black dot that basically summons you to death. The three legged stool symbolizes death because it carries the black box that controls your fate, like god controlling our fate. The stones symbolize ... ...

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... strange and bizarre custom. Every year, the whole village gathers together to draw lots and to determine the winner of the lottery. The person that ends up with the black dot at the end wins the lottery and his/her reward is death by stoning. One thing that is quite striking about Jackson's writing style is her use of symbolism to ... ...

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