How does Shirley Jackson use foreshadowing and Irony to show that death comes at the end of "The Lottery"?This is what my outline looks like:...

That the lottery is not an event of jubilance and
excitement is ironically suggested by the date:  June 27 is a sunny, pleasant day in
which things appear tranquil and peaceful set against the brutality of what will
happen.  This date is also near the summer solstice, a time when many ancient people
had their prehistoric rituals. That the lottery is such a old ritual is suggested in the
first paragraph of Shirley Jackson's story:

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...the whole lottery took less than two hours,
so it could begin at ten o'clock in the morning and still be through in time to allow
the villagers to get home for noon dinner.The children talk and act normally as they
break into "boisterous play," but, oddly, they fill their pockets with stones from a
large pile; Bobby Martin select the "smoothest and roundest stones" as though he has
practiced doing something with these stones
before.

In a case of dramatic
irony, when Bobby is called by his mother to stand with his family, he has to be called
four or five times because he wants to run, "laughing," back to the pile of
stones.

Of course, the introduction into the narrative of
"the black box" that is old and splintered badly on one side seems foreboding as the
villagers "kept their distance." Then, when Mr. Summers asks for help, there is "a
hesitation" before two men come forward.  Jackson also writes that "so much of the
ritual had been forgotten or discarded"; these line suggests something mysterious,
something that is not typical, some ritual.

There is "a
great deal of fussing" before the ritual begins.  Then a signing-in, a "ritual salute,"
and Mr. Summers acts "very proper and important as he talked...."  At this point the
reader certainly wonders what type of ritual will
occur.

When Mrs. Hutchinson arrives, she talks nervously,
then taps Mrs. Delacroix "on the arm as a farewell" and makes her way through the
crowd.  "A sudden hush" falls on the crowd as Mr. Summers clears his throat and looks at
the list.  The people "grinned at one another humorlessly and nervously."  Again, there
are suggests of something ominous to come.

In contrast to
all the foreboding elements, the events of the story are related in such a
matter-of-fact and objective way that is clearly ironic when considered against the
purpose of the story to elicit much emotion and to lead the reader to question the
morality of what occurs.