Traditions of the lottery have been implemented in the cities for as long as people can remember; furthermore, the lottery has at least occurred for 77 years, because that’s Mr. Warner’s current age, he states the lottery has been occurring since he was born. Participants include all families, and all members of the family have to participate. Annually during the lottery, each head of the household has to go up on stage to draw, when each family has a slip of paper, everyone waits in anticipation to see who has a black dot on their slip. Singling out an individual family, all family members go on stage to draw another slip of paper. Awaiting their fate, the family member who has a black dot on their paper wins the lottery. Killing innocent
