... use of foreshadowing. As the reader impatiently waits for the prize of the lottery, the author prepares in some of the eventual outcomes. Early in the story, it is told of Bobby Martin and other boys were stuffing their pockets with "the smoothest and roundest" stones (Jackson 539). The gathering of stones ... seems a bit odd. It is not clear why the stones and their significance at this point, but at the end of the story, the reader is hit by the realization that the author did prepare ... "the winner", Tessie Hutchinson, who gets stoned to death. Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" has als...

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