Shirley Jackson’s, “The Lottery”, clearly expresses her feelings concerning traditional rituals through her story. It opens the eyes of readers to properly classify and question some of today’s traditions as cruel, and allows room to foretell the outcome of these unusual traditions. “The Lottery” is a short story that records the annual sacrifice ceremony of a fictional small town. It is a detailed narrative of the selection of the person to be sacrificed, …showed first 75 words of 1353 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1353 total…lottery, however, in an interesting twist, those participating stone the winner to death. Everyone in the town seems horribly uncivilized yet they can easily be compared to today’s society. After reading “The Lottery”, one can compare the ritual, in the story, to some of today’s barbaric traditions. Hazing is a tradition that has been around for a long time. Perhaps just as barbaric as the stoning, no good at all results from hazing.