3. At the start of the story, the narrator creates an exciting and peaceful mood. Then all of sudden the mood changes to horrifying mood at the end of the story. The purpose of this is to make the readers meet an unexpected ending. Otherwise the story will be too plain and boring. Jackson seems to make a social comment about a specific traditional ritual, which should stop, because it is considered as unnecessarily right thing …showed first 75 words of 590 total…

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