The Lottery

The lottery is the story of a community becomming desensitized while viewing brutality and death. A fact that is clearly evident at the begining of the story when the children of the villiage proceed to gather stones for excution of lottery victims. Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones and the other boys soon followed his example p.443. This lottery of death was a pratice that had been carried out for gererations a tradition of sorts like the fourth of July except all your neighbors gather around in order to stone you to death. The people were non-chalant on this day of June 27th. "Well now" Mr. Summers "guess we better get started, get this over with so's we can get back to work". This whole lottery concept is very curious, what is the purpose of the lottery is it such a old tradition that no one really knows why this annual necessity is still carried out. For whatever reason citizensof the community continue with the lottery. there was a mention of another town giving up the lottery and to this old man Warner states "pack of crazy fools." Is the lottery a way to control the population in order to assure provisions were abundant for all? there can be a number of posibilities. Although everyone seems fine with the lotterty when Mrs. Hutchinsons family was summoned everything changed, at the start of the lottery she was joking with her husband "get up there Bill" but then when the time came and her family was picked she no longer saw this event as the traditional lottery but more like the possible death of a loved one, she begins to complain"You didn't give him time enough to take any paper he wanted I saw you it wasn't fair". Apparently all is well with the lottery until your name is called.