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style='font-family:"Courier New";background:white'* Jackson, who wrote
"The Lottery," was characterized by those who read her short story as
reaching a “new low.” The story starts out as a beautiful summer day with everybody
going on with his or her everyday lives. As the story moves on one can realize
that everyone in the community is afraid to stand up against the black box that
claims one life a year. The black box is what everyone in the community is
afraid of because in the box contains a black dot, that holds the fate of the
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