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Changes In The Lottery Tradition

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In the story “The Lottery”, the lottery tradition had only a few changes in the way it was conducted since it’s beginning. Any idea, belief, or tradition that is passed down from generation to generation is bound to change in some ways from the way it originally began. The original black box had been lost and replaced with another one that was now falling apart, but the villagers refused to replace this box because it had always been part of “their” tradition. The chips once used in a box were changed to slips of paper and the opening start of the tradition with songs and salutes had also been lost and were no longer a part of it. Just as time changes, so does life and everything in life, but it is up to us to bring about the changes that

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