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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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