The Lottery Text Response Essay

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This text meets the expectations of us reader, as such; the text has a nice flow of events as the writer explains how the lottery is being done and how it has been done before. The writer also notes the traditions attached to the lottery that the residents have forgotten over the years. But what makes this text a nice one is how the events turn out in the end. Frankly speaking, nobody can actually know that the mood of the story is to change from happiness mood to such a sad mood. On other end the expectation is that there is going to be some celebration but in the end someone gets hurt as part of the end of the so-called

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