The short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is the foundation for dystopian fiction.”Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones”(Jackson 7).They did not care if the box was lost or about the ritual they just remembered they were supposed to kill who ever got drawn out of a bowl or box to throw stones at them.This piece of evidence shows dystopian because no one would ever be able to do that without going to jail or killed.Another piece of evidence is when they started to throw the stone as said, “A stone hit her on the side of the head. Old Man Warner was saying, "Come on, come on, everyone"(Jackson 7).This quote means that when the girl got picked for the tradition