the lotery

The symbolism in the lottery is very intense, first the book is about a lottery were the winner gets killed, but before the killing is reviled the author does a lot of foreshadowing. Long before readers understood what the lottery really was, it mentioned that the kids were gathering rocks. At first is sounds like playing, but later the winner gets stoned. When the lottery was coming close to an end lots of people in the story would say "I hope its not…" witch hinted that it wasn't a lottery that people have today. And last, the black dot on the piece of paper, the black dot could be just a dot, but that was the symbol of the winner, or the one who would die.