The element that helps the plot of the story "The Lottery" become so effective is the author withheld what the lottery really was until later in the story. ... Foreshadowing has to be skillfully presented for it to work the way it's supposed to or the reader may figure out the plot too soon. "If foreshadowing is completely implicit, the reader realizes its meaning only later only later in retrospect. ... In "The Lottery" the first foreshadowing clue is the little boy Bobby Martin "had already stuffed his pockets full of stones"(Jackson 291) Boys fill...

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