The Lottery / Shirley Jackson

The Lottery goes against most everything anyone would think in the modern times.  They stone someone every year because of tradition.  Killing someone for no apparent reason except tradition reason is nuts.  The whole town seems resigned to it until someone is actually chosen then only that one person starts to complain. The towns resignation is showed by old man Warner’s statement. “Old man Warner snorted. ‘pack of crazy fools,’ he said. ‘Listening to the young folks, nothing’s good enough for them. Next thing you know, they’ll be wanting to go back to living in caves.’” (Jackson 268).  This statement show how they all accept the lottery and think nothing is wrong with it.  This quote also shows that the lottery is ingrained into their society and has become exemptible to them as they grow up.  It is very odd at the beginning of the story how the children do not think any thing of it because they are going around and collecting stones.  After a person is chosen the woman’s youngest son it even given a few pebbles to us against his mom.  It is hard to image any place that would not see anything wrong with stoning someone just for tradition.  A lot of people may do some strange things for tradition but killing someone takes it to a whole new level of wearied.