Perception vs. Reality The importance of looking at what really happens beneath the surface of a person, a culture, or a society is that you never really know what happens underneath. If you use “the lottery”, for example, you think their society is normal because they just talk and act like normal until you find out that once a year they have the tradition of “The Lottery”. You think the lottery is something amazing where you win money and try to get things but really at the end of it someone in the community dies. You never expect someone to die in the beginning because it seems so normal but if you go beneath the surface you find out everything that happens. If you look beneath the surface of either a person, or a community/society
