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The Lottery

The story takes place on a June morning in the town square of a small village. The lottery is an annual ritual that the villagers have. All the villagers are excited and waiting for the ritual to begin. The kids are picking up stones to use them in the ritual. The plot of the story is that each family has to take a slip of paper out of the black box. The family that gets the paper with a black mark on gets to draw again. The family member that has the paper with a black mark on it is stoned by the people and their family too.
Mr. Summer opens the ritual, get out his list and starts calling names. After everyone has draw their paper, Mr. Summers tells everyone to start opening their paper. Suddenly all began to speak at once "who is it?", "who is got it?" Then Tessie starts to yelled at Mr. Summers, "you didn't gave enough time to my husband to take the paper he wanted, it wasn't fair", Mr. Summer tells her that everyone has the same time to get the paper they wanted. So now the......


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