The Lottery Analysis

At first, the story was very complicated to understand, because the author is very descriptive and while I was reading the text, I had a presentiment of uncertainty. Then, I took my time to read it and now, I think it’s clearer in my head. Normally, the lottery is a fun event, but not in this short story. It really surprised me that we are talking about stoning and death at the end of it. I think the author wanted us to understand what was really happening, only in the end. At the beginning, all the families seem to be normal, even the concept of the lottery seem normal too, and then the author describes some children who are stuffing their pockets full of stones. Until there, we don’t care why they do that. After, we understand that the lottery is a sort of an old ritual and the goal of it; it’s to kill somebody who has the black spot on their paper. After, we understand that the person who is ‘’chosen’’ will be killed, by all the stones that the crowd will throw at …show more content…
All the heads of households in each family are men. Even the official of the lottery was a man. If the husband of a woman was not there for the lottery, the official of the lottery had to ask the woman if she as a boy under 16 years old to do the drawing: "Wife draws for her husband." Mr. Summers said. "This is a critical and sarcastic way to say that women can’t do that job. After that, for humiliate even more Mrs. Dunbar (the woman), Mr. Summers ask a taller boy, in the crowd, if he was drawing for is mother this year, he said yes. So, Mr. Summers wanted to show Mrs. Dunbar the right way to do if you are a woman, and you want to participate to the lottery. Even the crowd is saying mean things about the fact that the woman is not respecting the good follows: "Good fellow, lack." and "Glad to see your mother's got a man to do it." The comments are very disrespectful towards the