... of human sacrifice every year. The tradition is ironically referred to as the lottery wherein the townsfolk randomly draw paper out of a hat and the person that draws the black dot is the person that gets stoned to death. The theme of the story revolves around the strong attachment to tradition and rituals of the people in this town. The people believe that the practice of lottery in the town is part of ... the prosecution through stoning the winners while in the present society, the spectators are totally passive that their opinions don't count in the sentence that will be pronounced....

• Word Count: 1254
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... nobody will envy you and the prize certainly won`t fulfil your expectations. In this work the lottery represents a really old and almost unbelievably cruel tradition in which the winner is set into a position of a scapegoat and his or her inevitable fate is to die. The author analyzes the attitudes of individual characters to this kind of the tradition and she also uses these characters to manifest the theme. "The Lottery" written by Shirley ... than shocking. Another character which certainly attracts reader`s attention is Tessie Hutchinson who is a scapegoat or a victim of this meanin...

• Word Count: 2043
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School