The Lottery

The Lottery is a short story by Shirley Jackson written in 1948, this story is not about an ordinary "lottery" that we know. It's not about winning loads of cash. This story is interesting yet sad at the same time (in my opinion). Basically this story tells about a group of villagers joining the lottery that goes every year on 27th of June. The story starts casual, but ends tragically at the end.

The lottery seems to be already done a lot of times in many years before, because it says here in the story that the black box that is used for the lottery is already worn-off, broken, and old. The head of the family represents his family who wins. And a family member must be sacrificed. Because they believed that if they sacrifice a person in the village, their corns/corps they're growing (Since they're all farmers) will be fertile. Ends up the family that "wins" is the Hutchinsons and Mrs. Hutchinson, Bill Hutchinson's wife is stoned to death by all the villagers in the lottery event.