After taking a look at the background events right before this book was published it became clear to what influenced Shirley Jackson to write her piece “The Lottery”. My belief after reading this story was that people who seem ordinary will do terrible things if those things seem common to them. If their culture says that something terrible is normal, they will trust it. This type of society and action reminded me of the Holocaust. In the Holocaust, seemingly regular Germans helped murder all those people, largely because their society seemed to think this was a normal way to act. So, it is believed to be the most influenced by WWII and by the Holocaust in particular.
