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Why We Keep Playing The Lottery By Adam Piaore Analysis

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Every day, millions of people buy a lottery ticket around the nation, and around the world. In the article “Why We Keep Playing the Lottery”, author Adam Piore portrays his thoughts on why he thinks people continue to buy lottery tickets even when they go years at a time, winning nothing. His exquisite use of diction and imagery make for a very enjoyable, and easy read that also describe his reasoning to why people continue to play the lottery. Piore begins with an example of a woman in Florida who won $590 million dollars, then talks about the statistical chances of someone actually winning the lottery. The biggest, and most crucial aspect of this essay, was his reasoning to why people will continue to buy the tickets. Piore talks about the social aspects towards buying tickets and his tone becomes more serious. “To get your chance of winning down to a coin toss, or 50 percent, you will need to spend 12 hours a day, every day, filling out tickets for the next 55 years”. (698) Piore often times says people will buy tickets just because they like to think what they could do with the money even though they know they aren’t going to win. When Piore gets more information from the woman who has set up the lottery in Tennessee, he begins to see and portray the other side of the aisle; the marketing. Rebecca Paul Hargrove paints vivid pictures of her advertisement ideas to Piore, while he becomes more intrigued by how she is able to get more and more people to buy tickets. While

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