The Lottery

The world is full of evil things going on. This surely is evil. I was appalled when I came to the end of the story and finally realized what was happening. People do not end this barbaric event because they are deep into there traditions. (P. 406) “The black box now resting on the stool had been put to use even before Old Man Warner, the oldest man in town, was born.” Both traditions, and change are occurring as themes through out the entire piece. (P.410) ‘Old Man Warner said clearly, “People ain’t like they used to be.” ’ I would guess that people are probably afraid also to speak against something like this in a place where it is acceptable to draw a name and than stone a person. Millions of people on the earth are making decisions constantly, therefore there will constantly decisions which are being made toward the wrong. What about taking your business overseas to the poorest countries so that you can make for yourself a lot more money while paying the poorest of people to make your products allowing them to hardly earn a living wage. I am sure we all know this is wrong. Yet we all buy from these companies, do we not? People justify that things are right because it has “always been that way.” We don’t want to look at the obvious “It’s wrong, so we should not do it.”