The Lottery

3. represents scapegoat
5. Tessie keeps repeating, “I tell you, it wasn’t ______!”
6. last name of woman who has to fill in for her husband since he broke his leg
7. Hutchinson's youngest son
8. the point of view the story is told in
11. name of postmaster who assists in running the lottery
13. instead of chips of wood, townspeople now select this
15. how people know they’ve “won” the lottery
16. says “"It's not the way it used to be...People ain't the way they used to be."

1. said ““Thought we’d have to be getting on without you, Tessie.”
2. the title is this kind of irony
4. children gathering stones at beginning of story is an example of this
7. last name of person who picked up the largest stone
9. the shabby object that is the center of the lottery; it is splintered, stained, and faded
10. “Lottery in June, corn be ________ soon.”
12. assembled first in the town square
14. last name of character at front of the crowd when the stoning begins, and he says that they're thinking of giving up the lottery in the north village.