"The Lottery"

For this weeks blog, I decided to write about the short story "The Lottery". This story is based on a sort of "raffle" that several little towns do. At the beginning of the story, you assume that everyone is already accustomed to this ritual and that there is nothing particularly wrong with it. Everyone acts natural about it. It turns out that the lottery determines who is to be stoned to death next. One of the scary parts about it is that even if you decide to move away from this town, all of the neighboring towns are into the same custom. In the story, a woman by the name of Tessie Hutchinson was the one who pulled the slip of paper with the black dot on it. It's a very eerie ending when someone gives Tessie's child some stones to throw at her. Her neighbor, Mrs. Delacriox had also picked out an enormous stone to throw at her.