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Response To The Lottery By Shirley Jackson
"The Lottery" - Response Paper #1

In the short story “ The Lottery” Shirley Jackson, emphasized horror in her story by masking it with anticipation and activeness on trying to figure out what the lottery actually is. She does this by leaving hints along the way like behavior and keywords. She used behaviors to express horror when it's nearing the end and close the cruel truth of the lottery. The most important in this short story has the oddest and questionable behavior. From where she is introduced into the story as being late to the lottery. From then on she has been giving smart remarks here and there until her husband has the black dot (he won; not really ). After that has happened she has begun to protest and offer up other family members

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