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

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Jackson    1-8  Setting and feeling of the day

  • morning June 27 on a clear sun shinny day
  • Sometime in spring when flowers where blooming and the grass was money green.
  • Population had only 300 people.
  • School was out for the summer.
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Jackson 1-8  The people at the lottery

  • Men came and began surveying their children,and they talked about planting and rain, tractors and taxes. 
  • The women that came were wearing faded house dresses
  • Mr. Summers was in charge of the square dances, the teen club, the Halloween programs.
  • Mr. Graves was the postmaster
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Jackson   2-8    The lottery

  • Mr. Martin and his oldest son, Baxter, held the black box securely on the stool until Mr. Summers had stirred the papers thoroughly with his hand.
  •  Mr. Summers had  slips of paper to put in place for the chips of wood that had been used for ages.
  • Clyde Dunbar had to get someone else to draw his name for him because his leg was broke.

 

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Jackson    4-8    Method of The Lottery

  • There was this black box an Clark Delacroix went up to this box to pull a slip
  • Everyone have a slip and if it have a black mark you die.
  • Jack Watson name was pulled out the box and everyone in the crowd yelled don't be nervous.
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Jackson   6-8    How it all ended

  • Mr. Graves dumpes the papers out of the box
  • Each family member goes up and draws a piece of paper to open to see who have the black dot.
  • Everyone realizes tessie have the black dot so mr.Summers wants everyone to hurry up and when it all ended the villagars threw rocks and stones at tessie head to kill her.
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