Winning the lottery is something to be thankful for, but this town's lottery makes you thankful for not winning. On September 16th in the small town of Wellington, citizens were gathered to choose this year’s annual lottery winner, or in this case loser.
This town uses a method of drawing names of people in the town, the winner is forced to be stoned to death by the townspeople. So, the people who were once your family, friends, and neighbors are now the people who put you to your death. This year’s lottery victim was a girl named Tessie Hutchinson.
“I knew that once she was chosen there was nothing anyone could do,” said Bill Hutchinson, the husband of Tessie.
As you can see, it seems as if Bill was okay with the fact that his wife was going to die. He was surprised and he didn’t even have the urge to fight for her life. This is because Bill and most of the other townspeople have given up on the idea of fighting the lottery. They’ve realized that there is no point in …show more content…
Old man Warner, the oldest man in town, has participated in seventy-seven lotteries and seems to think that lottery is a gift to the town.
“It must go on. It has been a way of life forever in this town,” he said. Warner has been around the longest in Wellington, and he says that the lottery was how the town was founded. “It keeps the population down, makes citizens obedient and on their toes, what’s so bad about that,” he said. Warner, along with many of the higher elite citizens believes that the lottery is something that will and should continue forever. “I will no longer have my beautiful wife and my kids will no longer have their mother,” says Bill. This is why the lottery needs to be stopped. Innocent citizens are dying and it isn’t solving anything. In fact, it is potentially causing more damage, future rebellion could occur especially when the citizens of the town are hurt by the effects of the
This town uses a method of drawing names of people in the town, the winner is forced to be stoned to death by the townspeople. So, the people who were once your family, friends, and neighbors are now the people who put you to your death. This year’s lottery victim was a girl named Tessie Hutchinson.
“I knew that once she was chosen there was nothing anyone could do,” said Bill Hutchinson, the husband of Tessie.
As you can see, it seems as if Bill was okay with the fact that his wife was going to die. He was surprised and he didn’t even have the urge to fight for her life. This is because Bill and most of the other townspeople have given up on the idea of fighting the lottery. They’ve realized that there is no point in …show more content…
Old man Warner, the oldest man in town, has participated in seventy-seven lotteries and seems to think that lottery is a gift to the town.
“It must go on. It has been a way of life forever in this town,” he said. Warner has been around the longest in Wellington, and he says that the lottery was how the town was founded. “It keeps the population down, makes citizens obedient and on their toes, what’s so bad about that,” he said. Warner, along with many of the higher elite citizens believes that the lottery is something that will and should continue forever. “I will no longer have my beautiful wife and my kids will no longer have their mother,” says Bill. This is why the lottery needs to be stopped. Innocent citizens are dying and it isn’t solving anything. In fact, it is potentially causing more damage, future rebellion could occur especially when the citizens of the town are hurt by the effects of the