Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” has raised many questions in the back of reader’s minds towards the destructive yet blind rituals of mankind. ... Jackson obviously saw examples of misuse of tradition and ingeniously placed it into an exaggerated situation to let us see how barbaric our actions are. ... The running of the bulls, in Italy, may also be compared to “The Lottery”. ... These three traditions or rituals each compare to the one in “The Lottery” in their own way. Jackson clearly expresses her feelings concerning traditional rituals through her story, opened the eyes of its readers to properly classify and question some of today’s traditions as cruel, and allowed room to foretell the outcome of these unusual traditions.