Let’s play a game of Russian roulette. Generations of tradition passed on as the norm; never to challenge its significance. A box created holds slips of death. How can one person determine the fate of another. Shirley Jackson presents a character in “The Lottery,” that has control of the village’s annual events. In contrast to that one main event, which has the purpose of choosing one’s fate. As you read further into the story you see how the townspeople go about their annual routine to prepare for the event. Children picking stones, preparing for what’s to come. Corrupting their minds molding them into the tradition. Differentiating between the type of stones that were picked to prolong the process. Although they seem so carefree about
