This short story called the 'The Lottery' is written by Shirley Jackson in 1948. It's about a tradition of a small village which ends with a person's death to return their thanks to their Gods. In this story, we can see that people of that village in the story, tend to do a lottery of death just because it is one of their traditions. Which really makes me think that this is ridiculous is that the person who 'wins' the lottery will get stoned by the villagers, no matter what or who he/she is. It says in the story that her husband and children also threw stones at her which causes her to death. I think this is crazy. How can you even kill your own family member just to get the result of getting many corps? I won't do that. I would just die in hunger rather than killing my own family. To conclude, i find this story really crazy.
To be honest, I find this interesting too (Even though it is tragic) because the end of the story was unexpected like that. I thought the lottery was about winning some prizes but at the end it comes for death. I had no idea it would be like that because there were no explanations and people mostly think lottery as gaining prizes/money. But as I over read the story, I found some hints from the writer above telling about the stoning which were the black box, children gathering and piling stones, and it said there the lottery are always done in June(because harvest month is around August).
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