y the end of the story Mrs. Hutchinson is angry and scared as she is the winner of the lottery and will be stoned to death by her fellow villagers.
             The story itself takes place on a sunny day in late June. The day itself must hold some importance because all of the lotteries are held on June 27th. In the opening paragraph, the audience learns that the larger towns have to start two days early in order to finish on time. However, the reader never does learn why that day is important. The entire village gathers in the town center, interestingly between the post office and the bank, a government building
             and the financial center of the town. Here the villagers
             participate in a gruesome ritual. The boys gather stones in a large pile before the adults arrive. After everyone has assembled, the heads of each family, usually men, each draw one slip of paper from an old wooden box. Mr. Hutchinson
             draws the slip with the black mark on it. This indicates that all of the households within his family must draw, but because his eldest daughter is married, she draws with her husband's family. His immediate family are the onl
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