Lottery Foreshadowing
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The short story "The Lottery", by Shirley Jackson, is written in third person objective narrative. "The Lottery" is a story about a small town that has a lottery each year on June 27. At the beginning of the lottery, a black wooden box is filled with a piece of white paper for each household in the town. On one of the pieces of paper is a black circle. A man from each household, usually the father, is called to draw a piece of paper from the black wooden box. Once all the men have drawn from the box, each man opens his piece of paper. The man who has the white piece of paper with the black circle has to have his family draw from the box. Again the box is filled with the appropriate number of slips of paper. Each family member draws from the box and the one who draws the white paper with the black circle on it is the winner of the lottery. The townsfolk and their family then stone the winner to death in the center of town...