Symbols In The Lottery

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is old and ripped up. When iteams are old and ragged people seem to look down on them. A second characteristic that the box had was its color. The color black always symbolizes darkness or evil happenings. Since the color of the boz is black, it indicates to the readers that the event that is going to take place is evil. If the color of the box were a briught color people might be cheerful and happy instead of worried or depressed. Another reason that the box was a symbol of darkness is because the narrator refers to the box in a high manner. Th enarrator makes the box a big issue throghout the story. If the box did not symbolize anything, the narrator would not have made a big deal about the box’s shape or color. The box probably would not have been talked about if it did not represent that the lottery was a story about an evil event. The black box is a symbol that the townspeopel looked down upon, because it represented a terrible event.
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