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The Lottery

In the short story “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson portrays an average New England town with typical farm citizens embarking on a disturbing evil. On June 27th of every year the members of the community hold a village wide lottery in which everyone is expected to attend. At first we do not know what the lottery is, all we know is that it is held every year and that there is a “winner”. Jackson tries to set up the story as that there would be a positive outcome; however, this description of the setting foreshadows exactly the opposite of what is to come. From start to finish there is an overwhelming sense that something terrible is about to happen. The author also goes into great detail of describing the surroundings of the town from what kind of day it was to what the black box looked like. In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, Jackson focuses on religion, the views of the townspeople, and descriptions certain symbols.

We can see that in this story religion plays a major factor in the outcome of the story. At first the townspeople seem to be of Christian background because the story is describing characteristics we have in today’s society. Later on in the story we start to see more of a Pagan influence. We first

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