When talking about people who suggest the lottery should be given up, old man warner says, “used to be a saying about ‘lottery in june, corn be heavy soon.’ first thing you know, we’d all be eating stewed chickweed and acorns” (lines 197–199). what can you infer about the purpose of the lottery from these lines?

What effect is achieved by the use of the phrase "as the devil would have it" in the second sentence?

What does the machinery in the hospital represent to the army major in the story? support your answer with textual evidence.

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. which phrase best describes the connotation of the word “reigns”? a sense of opportunity and growth a sense of fear and anxiety a sense of compassion and humanity a sense of oppression and domination