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Psychological Effects Of Lottery On Family Members
Firstly, because there will be someone in the winning family that will be killed, it will have immense psychological impacts to the other family members. When the family members drew individually, none of them wanted to draw the lottery ticket despite that would mean they would lose a family member. “Nancy and Bill Jr. opened theirs at the same time, and both beamed and laughed, turning around to the crowd and holding their slips of paper above their heads.” They are relieved that it was not them, but that would mean it would be either one of their parents. The lottery puts family members against each other, resulting in the loss of unity and goes against the essence of being a family. Just after Mr. Summers asked is Bill had any other households
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