t the tradition and how the lottery is such a big tradition. All though the lottery is a big tradition the people of the town are still unsure why they do they do the lottery. They all know that there have been things forgotten over the years about the rules for the lottery; but yet they still won't break tradition by stopping the lottery.

The lottery sounds like someone's going to win a prize, but when the reader starts reading the second paragraph it seems like something else is going to happen. The author uses in-depth foreshadowing from the second paragraph on through the entire story. The first hint that something strange was happening was after Jackson describes the summer morning, she alludes to the children gathering in the Village Square that just got out of school, but they are acting quite strange not like normal boys when they get out of school for the summer. Jackson told us that "Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example...eventually the boys made a great pile of stones in one corner of the square and guarded it against the raids of the other boys". The first question we must ask is why are the boys piling stones up in the village square? At the very least we know that the stones will play an important role in the final outcome of the story. Every one of paragraphs in the story contains clues as to what is going to unfold later in the story. After all of the children gathered the men begin to fill the square, followed by all of the women. The men and the women stood together away from the many piles of s

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Approximate Word count = 1083
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)