“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, is about a tradition that happens every year on June 27th. On this warm day of June, the people of the village gather in a square to participate in the tradition lead by Mr. Summers. In the tradition (lottery), Mr. Summers first calls every head of a family (men) forward to pick a piece of paper from a black faded box. Each man has to wait until all the other men of the village have chosen and then they all open the piece of paper at the same time. The winner is the one that has a black dot on their paper. The lucky men of all the men in the village was Bill Hutchinson. When you think about the lottery you think of writing numbers down and winning a price. Well get ready for what is about to happen. Since Bill Hutchinson won, his family has to now select from the black box. There are six members in Bill Hutchinson’s household. Mr. Summers places six pieces of paper in the box and each person in the family picks. Mrs. Hutchinson selected the piece of paper with the black dot. This is very bad. The members of the village all grabbed stones. “‘It isn’t fair, It isn’t fair’, Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.” …show more content…
Hutchinson could have been predicted. There were more than three hundred people living in the village. Not one of them tried to stop it, not even her husband or children. This tradition has been going on for a long time. People have been stoned to death and the people of the village felt that it is was wrong, but they made the wrong actions anyway. They had the heart to stone their fellow friends, mothers, brothers, sisters, fathers, etc. to death. Why did the people of the village continue the tradition?
“‘They do say, ‘Mr. Adams said to Old Man Warner, who stood next to him, ‘ that over in the north village they’re talking of giving up the