In addition, the black box is another crucial paraphernalia for the lottery. ... Such black box, Jackson prominently depicts the origin, the evolution and the present situation of the black box in particular. ... Even so, the present black box "had been put into use even before Old Man Warner, the oldest man in town, was born; the black box grew shabbier each year. ... Summers began talking again about [making] a new box after the lottery each year, [the black box] was no longer completely black but splintered badly along one side to show the original wood color without anything's be...

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He also "spoke frequently...about making a new box" (75), so, therefore, he also represented new ideas as well as old. ... She is the one that drew the slip of paper that had the black dot on it which meant she was the one to be sacrificed. ... "Hutch" is a term for a chest or compartment for storage; basically, a box. Of course she drew that black dot out of the black "box." ... All of her jokes turned into pleas and accusations once she visited that little black box. ...

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Summers carrying a black box. Black is usually a symbol of death or unpleasantness. ... As the Hutchinson family draws paper the crowd looks on somberly and girls are heard saying they hope it's not the little girl. ... Hutchinson is has the paper with the black mark. Once again the color black is used to as a symbol of what is to come. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Summers carrying a black box. Black is usually a symbol of death or unpleasantness. ... As the Hutchinson family draws paper the crowd looks on somberly and girls are heard saying they hope it's not the little girl. ... Hutchinson is has the paper with the black mark. Once again the color black is used to as a symbol of what is to come. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Summers set the black box on it"(272). ... The black box that was placed on top of the stool was also a symbol. ... 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. ... For instance, little Davy Hutchinson was the son of the winner of the lottery. ...

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The reader is led through the seemingly normal and quaint little village, and is taken on a ride of ironic horror as he or she slowly grasps the eventual fate of one inhabitant of the village. ... Summers arrived in the square, carrying the "black box." ... The narrator recounts a partial history of rituals involving the black box, complete with rumors of chants, recitals, stances, dim memories of the way the lottery used to be conducted. ... Graves keeps the black box as does a grave hold death. ... In reality, time had little to do with the drawing, for Death comes on swift wings to whomev...

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The whole tradition of the drawing slips of paper from a black wooden box has its roots in ancient history and people already forgot the original reason of it. ... The slip of paper with a black point finally ends in the hands of Tessie Hutchinson. ... But in this case he is not successful because of disagreement of those people who believe that the present box had been made with some pieces of the original box which had been constructed by people who established their village. ... Jackson, New Yorker, 1948, p. 3) In the middle: "And now we`ve got to be hurrying a little more to get done...

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For instance, the little boy Davy, too young to even hold his slip of paper properly, could have been the one to "win" the lottery instead of his mother. ... Summers conducts the lottery by preparing the slips of paper for the black box and Mr. ...

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Word travels fast the Bill Hutchinson has the black dot. ... When they open their papers, they find that Tessie has now drawn the paper with the black dot on it. ... Summers says, "Little late today, folks" (Jackson, Pg.1). ... Tessie then is granted another chance to pick again from The Lottery and ironically she is the final one to pull the dreaded black dot. ... Lastly, the narrator then says, "Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones" (Jackson, Pg. 4). ...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School