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The Lottery Themes
Theme 1: In the story when old men talked about the other town ending the lottery. He did not want to change like the other town.
Theme 2: believing it will increase the growth of the season, Tessie was the one who got sacrificed.
Theme 3: I believe they count as a serial killer; killing a person every year is a crime.
Theme 4: Every year it happens, people unable to study their life so they can't realize mistakes.
Theme 5: Tessie realized lottery was wrong when she had the black dot.
A List of Horrors:
1) The people in town were acting normal like worrying about didn't miss dinner Instead, they should worry about the person who going to die.
2. Realizing it, normal and they just want to get over it. They sound it like it simple to kill
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