... became maddening."(Kennedy 1313) This is important because back in the civil war era watches had to be wound so this could have been interpreted in two different ways either Farquhar's watch needed to be wound or the slowing of Farquhar's watch means he is slowly dying. In "The Lottery" the first foreshadowing clue is the little boy Bobby Martin "had already stuffed his ... pockets full of stones"(Jackson 291) Boys filling their pockets with rocks is a normal thing for boys to do but is also a hint and should have had the reader wondering why the boys were filling their pockets with rock...

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