The Lottery

The story takes place on a June morning in the town square of a small village. The lottery is an annual ritual that the villagers have. All the villagers are excited and waiting for the ritual to begin. The kids are picking up stones to use them in the ritual. The plot of the story is that each family has to take a slip of paper out of the black box. The family that gets the paper with a black mark on gets to draw again. The family member that has the paper with a black mark on it is stoned by the people and their family too.

Mr. Summer opens the ritual, get out his list and starts calling names. After everyone has draw their paper, Mr. Summers tells everyone to start opening their paper. Suddenly all began to speak at once "who is it?", "who is got it?" Then Tessie starts to yelled at Mr. Summers, "you didn't gave enough time to my husband to take the paper he wanted, it wasn't fair", Mr. Summer tells her that everyone has the same time to get the paper they wanted. So now the family Hutchinson is the winning family. They get to draw again. They get the papers and the one who has the paper with the black mark is Tessie. Tessie keeps telling to Mr. Summers that is not fair. But the villagers stoned her to death as a ritual sacrifice despite her protests about the unfairness of the drawing.

Mr. Summers is the one who runs the lottery, he has no children and his wife is a scold. Mr. Graves and his son Baxter helped Mr. Summer to do the slips of paper. Old man Warner is the oldest man in town. The family Hutchinson is made up of Tessie the wife, Bill the father and their kids Bill Jr., Nancy and little Dave. They are the ones who got the paper with the mark. Family Delacroix is made up of Mrs. Delacroix and Mr. Delacroix Clark, Mrs. Delacroix is drawing for his husband. The family Dunbar is made up of Janey the wife, Clyde the husband and Horace their son, who is just 16. His wife is drawing for him because he