Last week in our class we read and watched the short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. The story has a main character, Tessie Hutchinson, and her family, who “win” the lottery. This story takes place in a small village. The people there kept their lottery, even though they could have gotten rid of it, because they wanted to stick with their traditions of ritualistic violence. This tradition was first put into use because in the past there were human sacrifices in order to get good crops for farmers, and they just kept using it through time. The person who wins the lottery has to let the townspeople stone them. This stoning ritual was brutal, horrifying, and cruel. It conveyed violence to the younger members of that village, and to the
