The story of “The Lottery” is a story that is filled with a lot of misconceptions and a misunderstood tradition. “The Lottery” is a story that takes place in a small foreign town on a warm and sunny day, you will see further down in the paper the significance of the weather. This story expresses a lot of controversial ideas and conflicts that make many people think and reevaluate their culture. It also brings us to realize that there are still many cultures that still use barbarous, ignorant, outdated traditions that have no significant meaning. The theme of “The Lottery” is focused around the relevance of some cultures and their traditions. In this story there are three main focuses that the author focuses on, they were ignorance, symbolism, and irony.
One of the most distinct characteristics of this story is the ignorance; it is based around a very ignorant and outdated trad
Therefore this story is just one of the many out there that lets us know how fortunate we are to be apart of a country that is run by a democracy. It also informs us that some countries are ruled and controlled by the power of tradition and not by the government. It also makes you wonder why these people still continue with these ancient traditions, when they are not relevant to their purposes. I think that the purpose of this story is to enforce the fact that we are not living in a perfect society and there are still countries that are way behind our civilization.
This story also contains a lot of irony; there are a lot of situations that contain some kind of irony. One of the situations that were very obvious was the fact that the children compiled the stones. This is an example of irony because the woman who is being stoned on that day son is one of the many children who are gathering stones for the sa