As read in The Lottery, different cultures practice different rituals. It may not be favorable to one country or culture, but to another it could be a normal practice. For example, Pakistan a country located in the Middle East is widely known for practicing honor killings. This stoning ritual can be compared to the stoning’s in the Lottery, done for agricultural gains. The Lottery killings and Pakistani killings are both commonly done by stones. The characters from the lottery believe that their ritual would help with the incoming crops while the Pakistani people killed because of societal and spiritual reasons. The Pakistani people would kill family members because they were being dishonorable to the family. In Pakistan the person being
