What Is The Story Behind The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

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June 27, 1948. Children are running, laughing and collecting small stones and pebbles and bringing them to the village square where the other three hundred villagers are gathering for annual lottery. A tradition amongst many small villages that is necessary in order to guarantee a successful crop return. For most people the lottery is essential and they cannot imagine not having it. One of its stronger advocates is an older gentlemen by the name of Old Man Warner. The eldest of the village he claims to have partaken in seventy-seven lotteries and does not want them to lose this tradition. He can often be heard mocking the other villages that have abandoned this tradition because he believes that it will force them to become a primitive society.