The citizens don’t even remember much of the tradition or why they even participate. It says towards the end of “The Lottery” that “Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones.” When Mr. Summers tells the oldest man in the village (Mr. Warner), “that over in the north village they’re talking of giving up the lottery”, old man Warner say’s there a “Pack of crazy fools”. As someone else acknowledges that some villages have already quit doing the lotteries, Mr. Warner calls them fools too and says it’s nothing but trouble to discontinue the lottery with no good explanation as to why the village should continue this tradition, but nobody questions him and the lottery continues. In the end when Tessie Hutchinson was desperately trying to convince the citizens it was not fair Mr. Warner says “come on, come on, everyone”, and everybody including her family went along with the tradition and stoned her to
The citizens don’t even remember much of the tradition or why they even participate. It says towards the end of “The Lottery” that “Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones.” When Mr. Summers tells the oldest man in the village (Mr. Warner), “that over in the north village they’re talking of giving up the lottery”, old man Warner say’s there a “Pack of crazy fools”. As someone else acknowledges that some villages have already quit doing the lotteries, Mr. Warner calls them fools too and says it’s nothing but trouble to discontinue the lottery with no good explanation as to why the village should continue this tradition, but nobody questions him and the lottery continues. In the end when Tessie Hutchinson was desperately trying to convince the citizens it was not fair Mr. Warner says “come on, come on, everyone”, and everybody including her family went along with the tradition and stoned her to