Interpreting 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

The theme of the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is “the danger of blindly following tradition ” EXPLANATION: The short story of “

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the duchess and her magical kingdom Jackson describes each aspect of the lottery with no judgement, offering information in a way that gives no indication of the dark truth of the event Even as a

the joker club akron The Lottery is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 18, 1948 The story describes a fictional small American