The villagers of a small town gather together on a warm summer day for the town lottery. There are only 300 people in this village, so the lottery takes only two hours, ending right before lunch. Village children, who have just finished school for the summer, run around collecting stones. They put the stones in their pockets and make a pile in the square. Men and women also gather stones, ready for the upcoming. Parents call their children over, and families stand together.
Mr. Summers runs the lottery because he has a lot of time to do stuff about the village. He arrives in the square with the a bunch of slips. A male that is 16 or older of each family comes and draws a slip. The family with the black dot is the one family that will lose on of their family today. The Hutchinson’s family was chosen.
Then, the second round began, and every family member in the Hutchinson’s family picked a slip. The one who had the black dot was Tessie Hutchinson, or mommy Hutchinson. All the villagers pick up their stones, even her son, Davy, did so, and all of them threw and threw until Tessie was stoned to death. She died complaining about how unjust this was, and we couldn’t agree more.