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Nancy Hutchinson The Lottery Analysis
In the story “The lottery”, there was a crucial briefing over a certain scene. The scene was introduced in the beginning, it was where the young children collected rocks to use on the lottery's ‘winner’. This scene starts with page one, paragraph two and continues to paragraph three. Now, I chose this specific scene because it helps the story unfold and, show its deeper colors when you look back on it. Another reason why I chose this scene is because, inside a character's head, there could be so much more going on than what is portrayed. I will be writing my portion of the story in first point of view, by Nancy Hutchinson.

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