The Lottery

Read and reviewed: Jul 05, 2021

This short story was selected by the Organized Book Club Server. P read it in high school. I just read it. I don't know what to make of it. Tradition. Superstition. The lesser of two evils in order to have a plentiful harvest that year and feed the whole village. A fear of what would happen if the ritual stops. Even if other villages around have already stopped it. But the story: Each year, at a lottery, a member of the community is selected at random to be stoned (probably) to death. And everyone has prepared their stones in advance.