Sentence Analysis “The Lottery” page 297 “Listening to the young folks, nothing’s good enough for them . (...) 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. There’s always been a lottery” The phrase “OK, Boomer” was floating around for a while and was pretty funny. It’s a phrase used to mock attitudes stereotypically possessed by the baby boomers—typically judgemental or outdated views regarding changes in today’s society which differ from their idealization of their youth, for example: criticizing our continual reliance on technology, or denying the existence of climate change and oppression of minority groups. Given the publication of “The Lottery” being shortly after World War II, we discussed the possibilities in class that it’s an allegorical story about bystanders who stayed silent while the Holocaust happened around them, or that it’s a criticism of conscription. I think another ta