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Notes on the Lottery
Jamarius
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English
12th Grade
03/07/2016

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Jackson      1      Introduction

  • People began to assemble at 10 o'clock at the square.
  • Some towns, the lottery took 2 days.
  • In the village of 300, it only took less than 2 hours.
  • The children would gather first since schools was out for the summer.
  • Bobby and his friends gathered the smoothest and roundest of stones and fled his pockets up.
  • The sat them in the corner and guarded them from the other boys around the square.
  • The men began to gather and the boys left their unguarded stones.
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Jackson     1   The Lottery(Mr. Summers)

  • Mr. Summers conducted the loterry, square dancing, and as well as teen clubs.
  • He was a joval man and he ran a coal business, but the people were sorry for him because he had no children and his wife was a scold.
  • Mr. Summers had an old black box with him when he arrived to the square.
  • The box had a bunch of papers in it with names.
  • Mr. Summers always talking about different boxes.      
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Jackson      2      The Box

  • The black box was old.
  • It grew shabbier each year.
  • Mr. Martin and his son held the stool where the black box was sittiing on as Mr. Summers stirred through it.
  • Mr. Summers substituted slips of paper instead of wood.
  • Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves came up with the slips of paper the night before the date.
  • They would sit the box in different places.
  • Sometimes it would sit in Mr. Martin's grocery store.
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Jackson      2      Enter Mrs. Hutchinson and Dunbar doesn't show

  • Mr. Hutchinson enters as Mr. Summers was left off the talking.
  • The people joked abouit her  late arrival.
  • Dunbar doesn't show up for the lottery.
  • Mr. Summers ask who will draw for Dunbar since he didn't show.
  • Everyone thinks the Hutchingsons have the winning lottery nmbers.
  • They had to redraw since bill has three kids and Tessie started complaining that it wasnt fair that he didn't have enough time to draw.
  • As this happens the villagers started grabbing stones and running toward Tessie.
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Jackson      3      The Drawing

  • Clyde Dunbar doesn't show because he broke his leg.
  • His wife draws dfor him
  • Mr. Summers begans to read the slips of paper.
  • He started reading the names of who won
  • Tessie goes through the town ritual again since she been late.
  • By ignoring her, the men, children, and women began to stone her.
  • Mr. Adams tell that the people in the North might stop playing the lottery and end back up in caves.
  • The lottery has been giving up in other villages.
  • Everyone gets their paper and soon as they opened it, the word gets around saying that Bill Hutchingson have the winning numbers.
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