The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Flashcards

website the rituals of the lottery The story tells of a village in which the three hundred inhabitants gather once every year on 27 June to undertake the ritual of the lottery The lottery the button in poker The story is about a fictional small town in America which conducts an annual ritual known as 'the lottery', whose purpose is to choose a human sacrifice to be

the rituals of the lottery Because so much of the ritual had been forgotten or discarded, Mr Summers had been successful in having slips of paper substituted for the chips of wood that  Mr Summers oversees the lottery as commissioner but also leads other village activities, representing guilt for perpetuating the evil ritual, though he has  The Lottery by Shirley Jackson What is tradition? Tradition is something that is practiced and preserved, handed down from generation to generation

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