The Lottery

Rituals like the lottery in my opinion should not be held anywhere. It promotes and exposes violence to the youth, In paragraph 2 it shows that "The children assembled first, of course"while people who might not have wanted to take part are viciously stoned if they're the unfortunate winner of the lottery.The reason rituals like this continue year after year could be that its a long time ritual of the village as shown in paragraph 5 " The original paraphernalia for the lottery had been lost long ago" and also at the end of paragraph 7 "at one time, some people remembered, there had been a recital of some sort, performed by the official of the lottery"or maybe that the people have no choice but to participate. People may not move to end the lottery possibly fearing something might happen to them or to their families. A somewhat modern day counterpart to the lottery would be the running of the bulls in Spain, where 6 bulls are released onto a street and people try out running them. Every year about 250 people are injured but the ritual still goes on year after year. People continue to still practice rituals that may not seem right to other but they are acustomed to their rituals.