American Literature / Unit 16 AML 1541 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Shirley Jackson and "The Lottery"
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The idea
Jackson wrote the story in under two hours, and The New Yorker printed it on the twenty-sixth of June, nineteen forty-eight. The anchor records hundreds of letters and calls, cancelled subscriptions, and readers who believed the event was real and asked where they could watch it.
In practice
Two hours to write, decades of outrage.
Where people slip
Jackson refused to explain her purpose.
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