The story begins in summer, the day is June 27th, and it is also the yearly “Lottery.” Kids play and gather rocks as the men get together then following the women as all of 300 people in the village gather. The Lottery was ran by a coal business man known as Mr. Summers who had enough time to mandate civil activities and the postmaster Mr. Graves. So Mr. Summers arrives with this black box and has everyone gathered by family household. Mr. Summers reminds everyone about the lottery’s rules: he’ll read names, and the family come up and draw a slip of paper. No one looks at their paper until everyone has drawn. He calls all the names, greeting each person as they come up to draw a paper. Mr. Adams tells Old Man Warner that people in the north village might stop the lottery, and Old Man Warner ridicules young people. He says that giving up the lottery could lead to a return to living in caves. Mrs. Adams says the lottery has already been given up in other villages, and Old Man Warner says that’s “nothing but trouble.” Tessie Hutchinson comes late and joins her husband Bill. Every family …show more content…
The black box is the first example which represents the lottery and the meaning behind it. There is a dark twist and no one wants to go near it because it will always result in someone getting stoned. Another example is the stones themselves which connects the community together in a sense. The kids all gather them and stack them in a neat pile so everyone can grab them. Then when it is time to stone someone they all participate because they are bonding over the shared experience. Some literal meanings in the story is how each year they talk about getting a new black box but they don’t. This means the lottery is fading as well and might even go away. Another aspect of the story that stuck out was the names of “Mr. Grave” and ‘Mr. Summers” which is a bit ironic because they raffle off someone to get