Traditions And Customs In The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

After reading the short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, I think the most important theme was Traditions and Customs. In this short story, the village that the story takes place in has a tradition every year called the lottery. In this tradition, one person is picked out of the village and is given a stoning, a punishment where people take rocks and throw them at you until you die. This tradition has been going on so long that the villagers cannot remember when it started. Also in this tradition, there are some customs like a black box which is never replaced, a black dot to indicate the winner of the lottery, and the head of the family, usually the husband, picks a slip out of the black box. In the story, Mr. Summers starts the lottery