The Lottery

In the short story, "The Lottery," there was many themes used. One of the themes I believe was corruption. The town in this short story was a little bit strange than your typical place. There's a tradition in this town that every year the lottery takes place, and when you think of winning the lottery you'll usually win thousands even million of dollars. The lottery this small town had was that if you win, you will die. Before the towns people start drawing cards the one thing I noticed was how people were acting. Their reactions and emotions told me that it wasn't just a regular lottery. Once the lottery begins the male of that certain family is in charge of picking the card. Once everyone is done drawing their cards you see which person has a black dot. If you do have that miserable dot you will die! Mr. Hutchinson in the story choose the dot and later on he was stoned to death. Overall when you analyze the story and think that the idea of killing people and having a lottery like that is very strange.