... nobody will envy you and the prize certainly won`t fulfil your expectations. In this work the lottery represents a really old and almost unbelievably cruel tradition in which the winner is set into a position of a scapegoat and his or her inevitable fate is to die. The author analyzes the attitudes of individual characters to this kind of the tradition and she also uses these characters to manifest the theme. "The Lottery" written by Shirley ... than shocking. Another character which certainly attracts reader`s attention is Tessie Hutchinson who is a scapegoat or a victim of this meanin...

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• Grade Level: High School