Things Aren't Always as They Appear

Things aren’t always what they appear to be. For example, people could secretly be traitors and horrible friends but act friendly, and they are deceptive. That’s what the story, The Lottery, is like. In the beginning everyone is happy, the children are having fun collecting smooth stones, and the adults are talking and cracking jokes left and right. But it doesn’t turn out the way you think. In the story, everyone gathers in the middle of town all happy and excited for the lottery. The children are giggling and the adults are laughing, and then the man who runs the lottery shows up with his black box. So normally you would think, “Oh, so they are all just excited to see who wins the lottery and gets a lot of money.” But they’re not getting money, instead they get a horrible prize. When the winner has been selected, they stand out in the opening in the middle of the town, where everyone forms a circle around the winner. Then they proceed to pick a handful of smooth, hard stones from the pile, and all hold them at the ready. Then once everyone has their stones, they unleash them at the person standing in the middle and stone them to death. So in this clearly deranged story, it starts off as happy story with the children and adults all smiling and laughing, then jumps from Happyville, to gooney town in under three hours. They kill a random person for absolutely no reason, and they even have the family of the person who was chosen throw stones at them until their mother, father, sister or brother is laying on the ground dead. There is clearly no point to is and it is just senseless murder.