In Shirley Jackson’s 1948 story “ The Lottery ,” a town selects one resident by chance and stones the victim to death. The killing is arbitrary by design, a ritual nobody can justify beyond the fact that it has always been done.
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In Shirley Jackson’s 1948 story “ The Lottery ,” a town selects one resident by chance and stones the victim to death. The killing is arbitrary by design, a ritual nobody can justify beyond the fact that it has always been done.
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