Blindly Following Traditions In The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

Many authors usually incorporate a theme in their piece of writing. A theme is basically the subject of talk on what the author’s personal feelings are. In the short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson the theme is the danger of blindly following traditions can eventually lead to you being cruel. The following theme with be supported through characterization and setting. In The Lottery one way that the danger of blindly following traditions can eventually lead to you being cruel is seen through setting in the second paragraph “Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones” and “…eventually made a great piles of stones in one corner of the square and guarded it against the raid of other boys”. The theme is seen through setting,