Themes in Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

You're not told the lesson in a parable—you are to figure out what the lesson is 32 THEMES THEME = means an underlying message or in other words a big idea

Through the invented tradition of the lottery, Jackson explores the way mythic thinking confers arbitrary events with moral significance

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theen patti It's the beginning of a fairytale-like story and adds an effect of irony after the reader finds out the Lottery is a cruel event where one wins'