The story, The Lottery, is a annual barbaric ritual which is taken place in a small American town with a population of about three hundred people on the 27th of June. This is a ritual whereby the locals display a strange and somber mood. After the head of each family draws a small piece of paper, one slip with a black spot indicates the paritcular family has been chosen. In this story, the Hutchinson family is chosen. Then each of the members of the family draws again to see which family member "wins," and Tessie Hutchinson was the “lucky” one. She is then stoned to death by everyone present, including her own family, as well as both the young boys and young girls as a sacrifice to ensure a good harvest.
Her friend, Mrs. Delacroix, warm and friendly in her natural state, selected such a large stone she had to pick it up with both hands to stone Mrs. Hutchinson. A big stone, when you throw it at someone, is very painful. This shows how the current society is. Your friends may seem friendly to you a moment or two, then after that, they will stab you in the back. This is how selfish human-beings are. They only care about themselves and don’t bother about what bad things that will happen to others. No matter what misfortunes befall you, they will not care about you. They will think that they are not in any trouble, and what has it to do with them. Even her children and her husband were involved in stoning her to death. She cared about her kins so much, but in the end, she had no one to depend on as she was brought into the middle of the crowd and being stoned to death. Her husband forced the paper slip out of Mrs. Hutchinson and held it up high to show that she was the chosen one. Everyone stoned her to death without having to think about how pain would the process would be and how hurt would the person being stoned to think that even her loved ones were stoning her to death. They did put themselves into the shoes of the other person and think about them. Initially, Mrs. Hutchinson assent to the idea of stoning, but after she was picked to be stoned, she screamed," it isn't fair! It isn't right!" Tessie's sudden change of heart upon having her own name chosen serves to highlight the hypocrisy of a society in which violence is accepted until it becomes the person himself or herself. If a group of gangsters wanted to kill someone, you will not be scared as it is none of your business if the person was killed because of the fact that you are not him, you will not be scared. This is human nature. Human nature are cruel, and it is not wrong of them to kill. However, after killing the person, the gangsters wanted to kill you, you will be afraid and you will have no choice but to give in and let them kill you. This also applies to Tessie Hutchinson. Thus, the author wrote this story to express that human nature is unfair. It is in human nature to kill and that is unfair.