"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson has two main characters, a housewife named Tessie Hutchinson, who is the person who wins the lottery at the end, and Mr. Summers, the man who organizes the lottery. Mr. Summers had
             brought the black box for the drawing with all the little white pieces of paper in it and he calls everyone up to pick them out. Tessie Hutchinson argues about how the lottery isn't fair and how her husband didn't have enough time to pick a piece of paper. All of the other characters in this story all play a significant role by just saying a few words and by helping throw the stones at Tessie.
             The story begins with a description of the beautiful day it is outside. The very first thing Shirley Jackson tells the reader is what time of day it is and what time of year the story takes place. The time of day is set at ten o'clock in the morning and the time of year is an early summer on June 27. The tradition of the lottery was always on June
             27 every year. She also describes that school has just recently let out for summer break, letting the reader infer that the time of year is in the early summer. The author does this to try to keep the reader's mind on positive thoughts about the story instead of feeling that something bad is going to happen. Even though the small town of 300 people starts their lottery on June 27, it is supposed to start on the 26th. Their town is so small that it only takes about 2 hours, but in most places it takes 2 days.
             The lottery sounds like someone's going to win a prize, but when the reader starts reading the second paragraph it seems like something else is going to happen. The author uses in-depth foreshadowing from the second paragraph on through the entire story. The first hint that something strange was happening was after Jackson describes the summer morning, she alludes to the children gathering in the Village Square that just got out
             of school, but they are acting quite strange no...