The Lottery

           "The Lottery" is the short story that impacted me the most. When I saw the title of this short story, I immediately thought it would be a story about someone winning the lottery and their life being happy forever after. I was very shocked when I realized that the prize of this particular lottery was getting stoned to death. This made absolutely no sense. Why would anyone invent such a strange custom? I can not imagine being a part of this horrible act. While reading this story, I wondered many times how this custom had lasted for so many years! After analyzing this situation, I have come to the conclusion that this is a type of control over the population. The reason that no one wants to do anything about this horrible situation is because they do not want to be singled out and they are aftraid to go against the flow. Many times we are the same way. When we see something wrong we are afraid to fix it because we do not want to go against the flow.