"The Lottery" Summary
In a small town of three hundred people, there is a lottery held in the town center. Everyone in the town attends the event: the children, the men and the women. In this town, at ten o’clock in the morning, the event starts. At the end of the lottery, everyone goes back to work.
Stones and pebbles are collected to celebrate the end of the event. No one is left out; even the children can be a part of the celebration. Boys gather the stones and pebbles to celebrate with the town. Men share some jokes about work and other things to make the mood happier. Of course, the women have to be present with their children and their men to make it as a family outing to enjoy or not.
Mr. Summers, the host of the event among others, is the one to kick off any of the town event. With the help of Mr. Graves, the event starts with a black box and paper slips with every name of the head of the family.
Although the lottery is done every year, no one can remember the meaning of it. Not even Old Man Warner, the oldest person in the town, cannot remember the meaning of the lottery. As the meaning of the lottery was forgotten; the black box’s appearance seems to disappear with time. Some towns had already quit the lottery; but Old Man Warner believes they need the lottery to move on and only fools would stop the tradition.
As the each head of the family drew their slips out, the people wait until the last draw was made to open their slips and find the winner. To find the winner, Mr. Summer drew a black dot on the slips of paper.
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In a small town of three hundred people, there is a lottery held in the town center. Everyone in the town attends the event: the children, the men and the women. In this town, at ten o’clock in the morning, the event starts. At the end of the lottery, everyone goes back to work.
Stones and pebbles are collected to celebrate the end of the event. No one is left out; even the children can be a part of the celebration. Boys gather the stones and pebbles to celebrate with the town. Men share some jokes about work and other things to make the mood happier. Of course, the women have to be present with their children and their men to make it as a family outing to enjoy or not.
Mr. Summers, the host of the event among others, is the one to kick off any of the town event. With the help of Mr. Graves, the event starts with a black box and paper slips with every name of the head of the family.
Although the lottery is done every year, no one can remember the meaning of it. Not even Old Man Warner, the oldest person in the town, cannot remember the meaning of the lottery. As the meaning of the lottery was forgotten; the black box’s appearance seems to disappear with time. Some towns had already quit the lottery; but Old Man Warner believes they need the lottery to move on and only fools would stop the tradition.
As the each head of the family drew their slips out, the people wait until the last draw was made to open their slips and find the winner. To find the winner, Mr. Summer drew a black dot on the slips of paper.
(http://wp.stockton.edu/gongma/summary/)