... though Mr. Summers, the villager responsible for conducting the lottery, often suggests having a new box, "no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box" (565). This shows that the box, falling apart and damaged like the tradition itself, still is supported by the villagers, ... that the population was more than three hundred and likely to keep on growing, it was necessary to use something that would fit more easily into the black box" (566). Nothing significant in the tradition itself has been changed, so when Mrs. Hutchinson "snatched a paper out and...

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... 27th, that determines which one of its inhabitants will be sacrificed. The head of each household is called up to draw a random slip of paper out of an old black box. Once each head has been called and someone draws a black dot on their paper, their entire family redraws. Tess of the Hutchinson family wins the final draw and protests about ... still remembered to use stones" (Jackson 630). In essence, the rules to the lottery, with the exception of the black box and the stoning, are new. The inability to keep the original rules and paraphernalia for the lottery can be strongly correlate...

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