In the short story the Lottery every year there is a lottery that sacrifices one person every year. I think that this lottery is wrong and it should be removed. It is very wrong to kill a person even if it is the tradition.
First of all, nobody wants to be killed for tradition. These people are just relying on luck so that they can live another day. They have to hope that they aren’t chosen. If the people are chosen they are constantly hit with stones until they die. It is very cruel and nobody should have to experience that pain.
But we have to look through the elders’ eyes. They don’t think that there is anything wrong with the tradition because they grew up with it. They see it as a happy event and don’t see anything wrong with this sacrifice. They just think that every year it’s the same old tradition sacrificing one person every time and they honestly just don’t see anything wrong with this tradition.
Then you have the little children who think that this absolutely terrible and that they shouldn’t have to sacrifice someone every year just because of tradition. They have to be forced to come because they are very reluctant to go. I think that the children can’t have somebody there one day and then the next they are just gone. They have a different view of the lottery and eventually when it will be the young generation and their children then the tradition will be gone.
I honestly have to agree with the newer generation because why do you have to kill somebody every year. I do understand that all of it is just a tradition, but still, why would this have to be a thing. I don’t think that there should be a lottery anymore.