The Lottery Characters

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Mr. Summers
Mr. Summers is the center of the whole town he sets everything up and is in charge of everything. Mr. Summers much like Kenny Nelson a man who is the center of perham and helps support almost every activity in perham. Mr Summers represents a leader who is very much involved with their community yet still blind to things around him. In the Book The Lottery Mr. Summers is portrayed as a round-faced, jovial man who had no children and a married to mean wife. he also ran a cal business and set up all the events in the village he lived in. He seems like a nice guy who wants what is best for the community in his mind. It also looks like he wants to keep the lottery fresh and new in order to keep it an ongoing tradition. He wants

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