The Lottery Summary

A long time ago, in a village, a lottery was held annually every June 27th. It was a ritual for a sacrifice to fertilize the crops (in this case, the crops are corns). In this lottery, the head of the families choose first. The family with the black dot on their paper is the chosen family. From the chosen family, their tickets will be retrieved and they have to retake their lottery tickets. The winning member from the chosen family will be the sacrifice. They sacrifice the person by throwing stones at them. In this story, the chosen family is Bill Hutchinson's family, and the chosen villager from the Hutchinson family is Tessie, Bill Hutchinson's wife. What I found shocking is the stoning at the end, and also the fact that even children and her own husband threw stones at her. I find this story very weird and a bit scary because imagining the stoning part is a bit diisturbing.