Summers, the villager responsible for conducting the lottery, often suggests having a new box, "no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box" (565). ... Summers had argued, had been all very well when the village was tiny, but now that the population was more than three hundred and likely to keep on growing, it was necessary to use something that would fit more easily into the black box" (566). ... Summers, a perfunctory, tuneless chant (566). ... Tessie Hutchinson dies for no reason but that it is tradition for someone to die every year, and ...

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