What you think will best show your knowledge of the material Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is really famous, not just for the twist at the end, but for being an important example of dystopic fiction.

What you think will best show your knowledge of the material
Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is really famous, not just for the twist at the end, but for being an important example of dystopic fiction. To get information about dystopic and utopic fiction, click here.Links to an external site. For this challenge, do some research and find at least 1 other example of a dystopic story, which focuses on just how bad things might get in the future. (You can think about The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, The Handmaid’s Tale, 1984, etc.)Then, answer the question: to what extent is Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” an example of dystopic fiction? There’s a lot to say about what this world is like, and why it is that way. So, feel free to use any clues about what happened before this story, in order to create a lottery like this. (There aren’t many, but they are in there!)

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