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Slips Of Fate -the Lottery
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In the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, the author uses irony to expand on a theme of traditions that continue although they are ludicrous and barbaric. “Like a lamb to slaughter” comes to mind for both the characters in this story and the reader. The characte ....
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....raves, is also rather ironic. Graves are associated with death and a grave will have to be dug for the so-called winner. Mrs. Adams states that “Some places have already quit lotteries.” Moreover, Old Man Warner replies, “Nothing but trouble in that,” “Next thing you know, they’ll be wanting to go back to living in caves,” as if the other villages were living in the dark ages and this village was not. Tessie claimed that her husband, Bill, “did.... |
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