A person’s support in a crime can lead to the downfall of themselves. Tessie Hutchinson is picked to be in the lottery which is where they stone a person to death. Even though she supports the entire thing, the moment she got picked she starts saying how, “ ‘It isn’t fair, it isn’t right,’ Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her” (Jackson 8). In this quote, Jackson also uses irony to explain Tessie’s death. At first, when everyone was still picking out the pieces of paper, Tessie did not speak up against the horrible experiences in the lottery or mention how wrong it was; all she did was quietly wait for her family's turn but the moment her family is found to have the black dot, she suddenly decides to speak up. This shows how
