What is the most likely reason that the author describes where the box is kept throughout the year?
Read the passage from "The Lottery."
The night before the lottery, Mr. Summers and Mr.
Graves made up the slips of paper and put them into
the box, and it was then taken to the safe of Mr.
Summers' coal company and locked up until Mr.
Summers was ready to take it to the square next
morning. The rest of the year, the box was put away,
sometimes one place, sometimes another; it had spent
one year in Mr. Graves' barn and another year
underfoot in the post office, and sometimes it was set
on a shelf in the Martin grocery and left there.
O to create suspense about when Mr. Summers will
take the box to the town square
O to create suspense about where the box will be
placed each and every year
O to convey the idea that objects are meaningless and
can be placed anywhere
O to convey the idea that people follow society's
traditions without careful thought