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In "The Lottery" Shirley Jackson conveys irony by painting a beautiful day with people, which is offset by a dark, and beaten black box to show how ugly the human race can be on the inside when there is such beauty on the outside. She gives us a scenario that is still played along with today. That is that we as humans play into ritual just for the sake of ritual without giving clear minded thought before we act. She also conveys a point of saying that we can think for ourselves, but letting others think for us throws the idea of individuality out the window.
The black box brings a lot of different elements into the story. Shirley Jackson gives us a great example of foreshadowing when the black box is just sitting in Town Square. Black is a color that almost always coincides with death. When the reader understands how happy everyone in the town is and how beautiful the day is they can not help but think the black box has to bring something evil into the story. The black box......

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