The Lottery

Analysis

• I found The Lottery a very confusing story. It was easy to read, but I kept asking myself why they are innocently killing random people. I would understand if they thought it was a sacrifice, but there wasn't anywhere that said it was. This can be related to things that have happened in our past. If you think about it, we have been through things that we thought were right because we didn't know any better. This is a lot like the lottery because they didn't know that this was a bad thing to do. It was a tradition, so children and adults thought this is what is supposed to happen and never questioned it. It can be related to slavery. We used to think that it is right to have slaves because everyone else had them, and no one thought differently until people stepped in.

Abstract

• The town gets together every year in the summer to hold a lottery. Everyone from the town comes in, and they call each person up to a slip of paper. Mrs. Hutchinson was late, and she didn't want the lottery to take place. Ironically, her husband draws the slip that has his family up for the lottery. They all grab a slip of paper, and everyone is relieve except for Mrs. Hutchinson who draws the slip of paper with a mark on it. The town grab stones, and they stone Mrs. Hutchinson to death.