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The Lottery
Title: The Lottery
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 716 | Pages: 3.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Lottery
Tradition of Violence
In the past, many catastrophic events took place during an era when people acted barbarically. Not realizing their wrong doing, normal small- town communities took pride in what seemed pagenistic rituals all for the sake of beliefs and tradition. In the short story "The Lottery," Shirley Jackson demonstrates irony in a small New England town, which by "lottery" yearly murders one of their own town's people.
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In the past, many catastrophic events took place during an era when people acted barbarically. Not realizing their wrong doing, normal small- town communities took pride in what seemed pagenistic rituals all for the sake of beliefs and tradition. In the short story "The Lottery," Shirley Jackson demonstrates irony in a small New England town, which by "lottery" yearly murders one of their own town's people.
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