that is based on an unnamed town where everyone is living happily, and they're all friendly with eachother. However, they have this thing once a year called the "lottery". The lottery won't bring you anything good though, only death. It's a tradition where you chose someone to kill for harvest. Shirley Jackson uses tone and imagery to prove that we humans, are completely selfish and opportunistic. We humans do things that benifit only ourselves. If it benifits us, we don't even question or think about the consequences that could/will happen. Humans are full of greed. We will stomp on who and whatever to get what we want. Just like the story, they were willing to throw stones at someone they were just talking to 5 minutes ago because of the "tradition".
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