a place were there is great suffering or injustice or it post-apocalyptic.
jovial- happy,cheerful or friendly.
profusely- large amounts
paraphernalia-stuff need for particular activities such as home improvements
interminably-endless or apparently endless
petulantly- a manner like they are acting childish or bad-tempered
Why do you think think this is a dystopian story? Does it remind you of any others?
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Questions for the "the lottery" story.
1. Describe the setting, using specific details from the story in your answer.it starts as a clear sunny day.the people of the village began to gather in the square,bank and post office at around 10 o'clock.
2. Explain the feelings of most people in town toward the lottery.
they seemed like they would be nervous and not looking forward to it,i don't think the children fully understand what is actually know what its about unlike the adults that do know what it is.
3. What evidence is there that the lottery has been going on for a long time?
A old man called Old Man Warner says in the test somewhere "seventy-seventh year i been in the lottery" he is also the oldest man in the town and the box is even older then him.
4. What is Old Man Warner’s attitude about those who would like to change things?
he doesn't like that idea probably because its a tradition that has being happening for decades and that anyone that wants to change it are fools.
5. Explain how the lottery works.
every year the town people gather in the a spot (most likely the town square) the children are usually first because school finishes for the summer recently,they go and collect stones and rocks which will get thrown at the family who gets the paper with the black circle that is contained in a black box filled with black pieces or paper and only one has a black circle on it that was drawn on by coal and how it all works is that the family that gets the paper with the black circle goes to the front of the crowd and get stones thrown at them.the process usually takes two hours depending on how many people are in the village.
6. In what way is the title, “The Lottery”, misleading? Why would the author want to trick the reader by having a misleading title?
well we all know that the word lottery is when you buy a ticket and have a chance to win money and in the story it isn't like that,so the title is to get more people to read i think its and interesting name for a book but it goes well because if you think about it all the people that don't get the paper with the black paper win so i can see why it would be called that.
