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The Lottery

Shirley Jackson

32 pages

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The people of a village perform their annual lottery, with startling consequences for the recipient of the one paper with the black spot.

Themes
Dark & BroodingStrange & UnsettlingThought-ProvokingQuietly DevastatingBlind adherence to traditionBanality of collective crueltyIllusion of civilized orderScapegoating as social ritual
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