Read the passage from "The Lottery." What is the author's purpose for using a black spot on
the paper?
Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife and forced the slip
of paper out of her hand. It had a black spot on it, the
black spot Mr. Summers had made the night before with
the heavy pencil in the coal-company office. Bill
Hutchinson held it up, and there was a stir in the crowd.
to represent the darkness of death
to maintain the tradition of the lottery
O to enhance the mystery of the lottery
O to represent the horror of disobedience