In 1948 Shirley Jackson wrote one of here most famous stories “The Lottery”, which caused a lot of talk in the literature world with the talk of weather it should have been published or not. The short story “The Lottery” was about a small town that has a lottery every year as a tradition. During this this lottery the people of the town would pull a piece of paper out of a black box and if some got the piece of paper with a black dot in the middle they would get stones thrown at them. And in the story someone stood up and spoke out against the tradition. This story shines a light on traditions of communities all across the world, and how people are afraid are afraid to speak against them. For examples in the book it says other villages
