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The Lottery Foreshadowing Analysis

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There were many details that seemed harmless in the story “The Lottery” that invoked foreshadowing leading up to the vicious ending. Children were making piles of rocks in the center of town and filling their pockets insuring to pick the ones that were smooth and rounded. My first conclusion was to maybe skip rocks as many children did and still do today since they were out for school, only to be flabbergasted as to learn the true purpose in the end. As the lottery was about to begin Mrs. Hutchinson came running into the square to join her family and the town making more obvious as Mr. Summers makes a point to state, “Thought we were going to have to get on without you, Tessie.” This disconcerting foreknowing about the woman’s future was

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