10/18/11

The Lottery was about a village quite a long time ago.  It started off as a small community, but eventually became larger, as the years went by.  Every year, on June 27th, they would have a "lottery".  Whoever won the lottery would be sacrificed for the crops/harvest.  It's was an annual ritual, every year.  Every man of every household in this town would pick a piece of paper from a black box, Mr. Hutchinson won.  Then, his whole family was put into the box and whoever pulled out the paper with a black dot on it, was stoned to death, for a sacrifice.  His wife pulled out the dotted card.  This was a very eerie story, because I, as a reader, thought the lottery was something you would want to win, but it was quite the contrary.