The Lottery

Well this story is disturbing. It almost seems satirical, like its making fun of tradition and how strictly people follow it without thinking about what they are really doing. There are many allusions to the fact that this is a tradition for instance when they say, "Used to be a saying ‘lottery in June, corn be heavy soon’. First thing you know, we’d all be eating stewed chickweed and acorns. There’s always been a lottery.” The last line seems like everyone's justification for why they do the lottery, there's always been one, that's it. However to me the most disturbing line was “Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use the stones.” This statement reminds me of the how people sometimes say that people forget the good things that someones done and remember the bad. I think this statement is meant to say that for all of us and this whole story is supposed to represent a much larger scale of people although it is taken to the extreme so that it points out the flaws in our society.