The book the lottery is about a village that’s very agricultural. They do the lottery once a year and the Pearson that won the lottery was sacrificed to make a better growing season. This is how it works they all put their last name in a box and they mixed the names up and then they all got called to come up and draw. Their name and if you picked your family goes up and then a guy puts all of their family members name in the box and then if you were picked you were stoned to death because they believed that it would bring a better growing season for their crops. This is why I picked the theme of things can happen unexpectedly. One reason is you cannot predict the future. This is because she was one day minding her own business doing dishes,
