Purpose and content of

1- The lottery is conducted on June 27th around ten o’clock. The titular lottery chooses one person from the town to be stoned to death every year for no other reason than tradition.

All the people of the town gather together and the heads of the extended families each draw one slip from the black box, but they do not unfold them until all the slips have been drawn. The one with the black dot on it goes to a second round of drawing to choose one household within the family. For the final drawing, one slip is placed in the box for each member of the household and the person with the black dot is stoned to death. In the story, this person is Tessie Hutchinson.

2- Old Man Warner responds to Mr. Adams who tells him that another village had given up the lottery. In Old Man Warner’s eyes, doing away with the lottery would be akin to going back to primitive times. He believes that society would fail without the lottery and his belief is shared by many in their community because they believe that the sacrifice is needed for crop success, so is justified. Also he said that teenagers only talk nonsense.

3- In "The Lottery", the title is ironic because, normally, winning a lottery is a positive experience and often includes a valuable prize. The "winner" of this particular lottery, however, is stoned to death by the other villagers. This lottery is one you want to lose. Also, the lottery makes reference to the real lottery and that there are some people that cling to that even though it is a waste of money. The same happens with the lottery of the story, that it is a bad tradition and there are some people who still want this.

4- After getting chosen at the lottery, her perspective of the lottery changes, and she questions the traditions that she blindly followed for many years. She argues and complains to the villagers yelling that it isn’t fair, but the townspeople ignore her, even her husband tells her to shut up. Due to this, Tessie is criticized by the town because she spoke against the traditions.

5- In The Lottery, the lottery’s original purpose was to guarantee a good harvest. When Mr. Adams mentions how some towns are discussing moving away from the lottery ritual, Old Man Warner says that “Lottery in June, corn heavy soon”. So if they give up the lottery, they would be eating "stewed chickweed and acorns." This indicates that the belief that the lottery sacrifice would result in a better harvest.