Initial Thoughts????

Having completed our reading of the short story "The Lottery," what are your initial thoughts? Also ponder the following:

Helen Nebeker says that ["The Lottery"] “describes man’s victimization by ‘unexamined and unchanging tradition which he could easily change if he only realized their implications’” (qtd in Kosenko).

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