Jennifer Walker
             Summary/Critique
             "The Lottery"
             The story, "The Lottery," features on a small town. The focus of the scene is on the tradition of the lottery held in the town each year. The author, Shirley Jackson, sets up the reader to believe something positive is going to happen. In fact, the lottery is a drawing that each family must participate in and at the end of the drawing, someone in the town, adult or child gets stoned to death. In this summary, I will show the control the town has over the children and I will also show the importance of the children in the town because of the fact that they are the ones who have to keep the tradition of the lottery going.
             The morning the lottery was to take place "the children assembled first," showing that they were already used to the lottery being apart of their lives. They see it as a day of celebration. They were so used to this, they showed pride in it by "selecting the smoothest and roundest stones" and putting them in their pockets for the stoning. The action of selecting rocks shows how much control the town has over the children. The town has control over them the moment the parents decide the stoning is right. By this I mean, when the parents say something is right with no objection, the children follow example and think that it's okay. An example of this is at the end of the story "someone gave little Davy Hutchinson a few pebbles" to throw at his mother so he could get used to the tradition. Another example of control over the children is when the children "broke into boisterous play," instead of being scared or even amazed at the fact someone would die in a few hours and wi!
             th the help of their hands. This is the way they are taught to feel about the day of the lot
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