Most people think “The Lottery”, a short story written by Shirley Jackson, will be about a lottery in which one of the characters will win something. The “winner” of the lottery, in this story however actually loses. The winner even gets killed! This story is full of surprising elements, everything looks like something else. The story gives us hints that something bad is going to happen. At the beginning of the story the children are collecting rocks, instead of playing on the grass. The black box shows us that there is some dark, black magic in it. The story is also dark by, how people want to change their traditions year after year, but they never change. Old Man Warner, the oldest man in town, who represents the old traditions, disagrees