Response To Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson is a short story about a small town with an unexpected dark tradition. When you first start reading you associate the lottery as a good thing. As you read on the story slowly starts eluding to a darker outcome. The further you read, the more you get foreshadowing lending a sense of impending doom. When the story comes to its conclusion that the one selected in the lottery is going to be stoned to death, you have the questions come to mind of, why do they do this, to what end? It makes you think about how our own societies through the ages have had rituals, or rules that sometimes don't make any sense, or how people can partake in superstitious dogmatic activities that makes normal people do irrational and even