Destroying Morals And Humanity In The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

The story opens on a Sunny warm summers day with children gathering the stones that will be used for the stoning. The children would also participate in the lottery similar to G.R. Stephenson finding on monkey behavior. Generation would continue to grow and die and some would never know the origin nor reason for the lottery but continue to do it without any question. Destroying morals and humanity only seeing the good of the community in ways unexplainable even by the villagers. Deteriorating morals are shown in several cases throughout the story. Civilians wanting the stoning to be finished as if a life matters less than their need to get dinner ready, grabbing stones big and heavy enough to need both hands while screaming “let’s get this