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Jackson the lottery summary5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() He brings the black box (which isn’t the original one, which was lost so long ago that even the village elder, Old Man Warner, was not born at the time) and the lottery begins to be drawn. ![]() In most other towns the lottery takes a long time, but this town is so small that there are only three hundred people.Ĭhildren gather stones, putting them both in their pocket and in a pile in the centre of the town square, where the lottery is to be drawn. In a small town, a group of villagers gather for the annual town lottery. Graves helps Summers organise and run the lottery. Despite their being married, he is more than willing for his wife to "win" the lottery instead of him. The man who organises and runs the lottery. He remembers some things about the way the lottery used to be run, and laments that time is changing it and young people want it to be stopped. ![]() Old Man WarnerĪn old man who has been in the town for many years. ![]() The lottery does not come with a prize, instead it comes with a death sentence. Tessie is a young woman who is the unfortunate winner of the lottery. "infobox Book " name The Lottery image image caption Tale Blazers Edition author Shirley Jackson country America language English language genre(s) Short Story publisher Tale Blazers release date 1948 media type Paperback pages 30 isbn 1563127873 Character Summaries Tessie Hutchinson ![]()
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