Thursday, December 8, 2011

The Lottery- Misleading Title

"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny"

The title along with the start of the story make the reader feel as though this "lottery" will bring good fortune to the winner. After all, this is generally what lotteries do. In today's world, winning the lottery means riches and happiness and luck. Also, the beginning of the book is filled with light diction of beautiful days, and children gathering. This throughs the reader off suspecting the ending. However, the beginning of the story might elude to the end because it was to happy, and too light. Nothing really happens, except the gathering of stones and the bringing of a ritualistic box. These concepts combine foreshadow the end result, but it is written so as to through the reader off. Only at the end does the reader understand what the lottery is, basically a sacrifice of one of the town members, though is unclear what the purpose behind this is.

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