"The Lottery" Carter Goss

Role: Starving Artist
Item: Black Dot on a piece of paper
Significance:
- symbolic of death
- correlates with BLACK Box
- reveals who was picked from the lottery



I didn't connect to the short story in any way, but I did connect with the suspense and fear that Shirley Jackson was evoking through her descriptive and concise selection of vocabulary.

Comments

  1. Who wrote this blog? Also I want you to think deeper about not having a connection to the story. For instance, expand on what you mean about "concise selection of vocabulary."

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