The Lottery

Another way of letting us know that tradition and rituals sometimes is wrong and damages society, I don't even know why it's called the lottery since when you talk about "lottery" you expect good things like money, fortune and a better life due to the money you win, but in here the one that "wins" is the one who gets stoned to death, I personally think that they did it to just kill someone since it says that they lost the original box and had forgotten about the original ritual. Sometimes some traditions are unnecessary like this one, why would you need to stone people to death? just for fun? This story somewhat represent ourselves nowadays since when there is a fight or argument in public or someone is beating someone else up we just flock towards and don't do much to help we just like the gossip to butt ourselves not to stop the problem or to try and help the others out but just "to fuel the fire" even more which is what we can see here in The Lottery, where not even the child were safe from such a nasty tradition, even the adults gave them pebbles to throw at Tessie, but no one seemed to help her as she cried out that the lottery was an unfair business, they just kept throwing stones at her until the very end of her life.