The black box is what holds the piece of paper that control a person’s life or death. This box is ignored all year round (Jackson 7). No one in the town cares enough to fix or maintain the box to a point where it is not falling apart. The morals of the townspeople are very much like the black box almost no one cares enough or even thinks about how wrong and primitive picking one person at random to kill is. The townspeople do not even remember why they have the lottery. Amy A. Griffon writes “the villagers began to take the ritual lightly” (Griffon 1). Shirley Jackson proves this by writing “The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions” (Jackson 11). The townspeople started to forgot why they had the lottery