In Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery" irony is illustrated through the community event of the Lottery. Initially the reader begins to assume that the lottery is an event where something is won, but as the story progresses, one realizes that the lotter is a death sentence.
In the first paragraph the author describes everything happy and it says it was sunny and that flowers were blooming and it illustrates new light.
"The lottery was conducted--as were the square dances, the teen club, the halloween dance"
"Then the children start gathering rocks,""The black box""Mr. Grave"
These things foretell that this is not a normal lottery and there will be something bad that will happen.
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