For example, in the beginning of the story everybody is happy and cheerful, but towards
The middle of the story it gets a little intense because we think that the prize is money or something fancy but in reality it really isn’t. Another example to back up this point is a quote from a character in the story who is named Old man Warner says “It’s not the way it used to be” and “people ain’t the way they used to be”. The mood of the story is bipolar because in the beginning it has a nice feeling that you think that this story may not be what you thought it was going to be but when you reach the end. It will shock you to the core and that you never that the ending would come to a brutal and cruel ending to a character that you may or may not have liked. The story symbolises the cruel customs that the people in the village had and it was also it was their tradition, The lottery also showed that little to no moral repulsion, basically means that there is no emotion when it's time to get rid of one of the villagers who had “won” the lottery. …show more content…
And a quote from a character named Hannah Arendt called the lottery “the banality of evil” because the end result shows a brutal way to get rid of someone because towards the end of the story, a section of it points out that “although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stone” which proves that this is a worst type of way to play a “ game” and would get a “prize” but in reality the prize is getting stoned to death to reduce the population in a village instead of asking nicely to just simply leave the village not just creating some game to get rid of huge amounts of people by throwing stones at Someone or multiple people. The meaning of the story is that the story cries out on several levels because it created a tale that can touch on the devastating effects on the psychology of the bad side of people that we never really knew. The tone that this story gives off is a bipolar tone because in the beginning the tone feels warm and light hearted like nothing bad is going to happen to the characters or the village, but when you get to the middle things kinda escalate a little bit like certain events that happen in the story and shows that certain characters have a little dislike for one another. And in the end the tones changes dramatically due to a character named tessie that cause everyone the crowds of people stone tessie to death because, at the end of the story one of the characters says to tessie after she notices something isn’t right the person tells her