Old Man Warner said it best when he said, "It's not the way it use to be." "People ain't the way they use to be." (Jackson 260)
             That statement in itself reigns true even today. It is seldom that anyone can turn on the news and not see unnecessary violence. You can't have a child to walk down the street and expect them to be safe, or have gang party and no one get hurt. The stoning was a superstition that if you sacrifice someone from that small town the harvest would be great the next year to come. The harvest had nothing to do with sacrifice. They had done this tradition for seventy-seven years, but in seventy-seven years no one spoke up or tried to say anything about it to try to change it. To at least try to make the villagers understand how they were for their ritual stoning. Today we have police officers to keep the peace, but apparently Tessie had no one.
             Tessie Hutchison walks into the lottery just as they are about the call the names, and the villagers notice her lateness. They also joke with her about it. Tessie jokes back with them saying, "Wouldn't have had me leave m'dishes in the sink now you would you Joe?" (Jackson 257) Tessie starts the mood of the lottery off light. She seems calm in her attitude toward the lottery.
             Tessie then finds out that Bill her husband has drawn her family for the lottery, and her mood changes dramatically. Going from the light, and calm attitude, to angry and out raged. She began yelling at the official even though it was her husband who drew the lottery. She waited until the last minute to say anything instead of saying it at the time of drawing. "You didn't give him enough time to take any paper he wanted. I saw you. It wasn't fair!" (Jackson 259)
             Tessie begins to realize her chances out of her family to draw the lottery. She becomes selfish, and tries to bring he
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