The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

The short story was about a village that conducts a lottery with the families of the village. The village has 300 people so the lottery takes 2 hours. As the children are the first to start gathering, then the men, and then the woman. Before the lottery started some of the villagers were saying that other towns stopped doing the lottery. But Mr. Walker wasn’t pleased with it. Mr. Summers came up with a black box with paper slips inside and one of the paper slips have a black dot made by coal. Mr. summers yell the names of the men of each household. When done, the families have to open the paper slips. When Bill Hutchinson unfolded his paper it was a big black dot. From there was when his wife was saying the pick was rigged because they didn’t give him time to pick the paper slip he wanted. And the other women from different families told her to be a “good sport”.  Then Mr. Summers told Bill Hutchinson  how many family members that he has. Bill then respond just Bill JR., Nancy, Dave, Tessie and him. then they added 4 other paper slips in the black box and the slip of paper with the black dot on it. Then called Dave, Nancy, Bill Jr., Tessie, then Bill. Once everyone picked a paper slip then Little Dave, Mr. Graves opened the slip it was blank. Nancy and Bill Jr. opened them up at the same time and it was blank. Then Bill Hutchinson opened his and it was blank.