What Is The Purpose Of The Lottery? “It isn’t fair, It isn’t right”, Tessie Hutchinson screaming in fear. In the story “The Lottery” written by Shirley Jackson, which takes place around the 1950’s, shows how important miserable tradition are important to people, even thought at the end of every year’s lottery a person that won the lottery is stoned to death. If a person from your family wins the lottery it's not a good thing, it's actually a deadly thing because you will get stoned to death if you win. To begin, I think “The Lottery” is a tradition, people want to stop but can’t because it's a huge tradition in their village. “Mr. Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but no one liked to upset even as much
