The Lottery is a short story written by Shirley Jackson in 1948. It's about a tradition of a village to draw a lottery every June for the villagers. So, the head of the family chose the paper from the black box kept by a man named Joe Summers. It turned out the family who won was the Hutchinsons, a family consisting of Bill, Tessie, and their three children. Each of them drew a paper again from the sacred black box. Tessie got the paper with black dot in the middle, which meant she won. The villagers took stones and began throwing them at her until the sacrifice died.
For me, the Lottery is a weird short story, because I still don't understand why people are willing to do the stoning only for sacrifice for good crops. But the story is well-written with a lot of descriptive words, making the story interesting to read.
