as children, then later as adults. This was not natural to the children however, the children had to be taught; they were not born with it. Little children are not brought into this world knowing right from wrong; through examples of those around them, they discover how society works. The same holds true for the villagers in “The Lottery”. Adults from the village have accepted the way the system works, and in turn have passed it along. Little children view their parents as infallible and in turn accept what is passed down to them. The children from the village have listened and almost take delight in the practice. Although they have no comprehension as to the reasons that the lottery exists, they believe in the practice. Children put faith into stories, and the lottery is an example of that. A person needs to be killed by stones every year, or something bad will happen. The bad “something” does not even need to be known by the children in order to comply, merely the threat of the bad “something”. Since it is by example that these ch
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