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Questions: In Shirley Jackon's story "The Lottery" answer the following questions:

1. What are the conflicts?

2. What did you expect from the title? What happened to that expectation as you read?

3. What did you expect from the first couple of paragraphs, especially the first? What happened to that expectation as you read?

4. Identify the characters. Who is the protagonist? The antagonist? Is the protagonist dynamic or static?

5. What are the conflicts? Internal? External?

6. Identify the point of view/narrator -- What's the effect on the reader's knowledge? Are Jackson's choices effective or not -- and why or why not?

7. What's the purpose of the lottery? What do people in the story think about it? Do you have any sense of whether it's the same or not, or whether it has changed?

8. Think about symbols -- identify as many as you can. Also: what do you see as significant?

9. What's a scapegoat?