Discuss the theme of “otherness”. As you read the stories, think who or what has been marked as an “other” that must be purged, killed or shunned from the “self”. Often otherness includes qualities we do not want to acknowledge in ourselves and impose them on to an other. Ancient concept of a scape goat (escaped goat) on whom an entire community would pile up all its psychological “evil”/negativity and drive it out of the town and kill is reflected in “The Lottery”. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/06/26/the-lottery
