Tradition Of June 27 In The Lottery, By Shirley Jackson

The lottery by Shirley Jackson in The New Yorker is always on June 27 in the story. The steps for the lottery is 1) first the husband draws for the family. 2) the man with the dot then his family has to draw together, then who ever gets the dot then they get rocks thrown at them. Mr. Old Warner likes to say “ lottery in June crops be heavy soon”. He says this so then people think that it helps the crops grow that is why they do the lottery. They do this as tradition ritual every June 27 because they think it works and has been going on forever and the younger people think that the town should stop it and start new and different ones. A Lot of people now are still doing it. It might even be happening in your very town. At the beginning the setting is clear, sunny morning 10 am summer June 27 1948 Lottery happens this day flowers, rich green grass 300 people in the village coming together into town square next to the post office and the bank.

The theme of this story is the power of tradition. And how it changes the way they live and how their actions are going to change after time it is harder than ever and last a long time. Over that there will be actions that might change and the way of people live if they just stop it. It might become hard for them and might not come true and they change and they keep it. As the new generation is coming thru and think that it should change because it's killing people just over food what if the mayor or someone special did it and got killed. Like in the story Mr. Adams was trying to tell Mr. Warner that it is time to give it up and Mr. Warner denied and said no it's been around two long and it would need to stay and that the new generation is going to change everything about how they are