Family Relationships In The Lottery And The Crash

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The impact of family relationships in The Lottery aand the Crash
Talija Bandet

Family relationsips are challenged in a great number of ways that become broken. Family relations are challenged in the two stories. The Lottery and the Crash. The families in both stories are close up until a certain point. The lottery is a very intense story as the Lottery isnt actually what a may seem, you dont actually win a lottery in a good way. Family gets picked and one of the members in the family gets stoned to death as they pick a letter with a black dot. In the crash racism effects the family relations

Power dynamic is a very big topic in both stories. The lottery and the Crash both have power dynamic in the stories. The lottery men would always

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