Well this took me by complete surprise. The story talks of the towns people gathering around for a lottery, which is today known for winning a prize, like money. The kids pick up rocks and put them in piles, which i thought was just something childish to do. Then the men and women gathered with their family, and Mr. Summers came with the black box and called out all the names for them to come up and grab a piece of paper from the box, but can't look at them right away. Who ever gets the correct one wins! After Mr. Summer calls all the names they can finally look. This is the part that I figured out something was wrong. Everyone was hesitant about opening their papers, which in a lottery for money most are anxious to. The winner of the lottery turns out to be Bill Hutchinson. Then his wife starts freaking out that it wasn't fair, which obviously ment that something wasn't right with this 'lottery'. Then they entered the names of the family on to pieces of paper to draw again. Then the true winner is his wife, Tessie. All of a sudden, everyone is starts throwing stones at her. Quite the lottery winner. This didn't make any sense, because why would they hold a lottery to kill or hurt someone in their village. Did they believe it was some sort of sacrificial ritual? Other towns had done it as well, so what was going on?
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