What Is The Theme Of The Lottery

In the story that I will be discussing, "The Lottery", there are many different ideas, but one main theme. I believe that this theme is shown in this story in different ways. In this essay I will be explaining the two reasons why I believe that the theme is Tradition. I initially thought of tradition because of the name of the story, which is "The Lottery". When I hear about the lottery I tend to think of an annual drawing which in some societies is a traditional event that usually is done to celebrate history of a community. In addition to my first reason, I also thought of tradition when in the story it says "The lottery was conducted as were the square dances, the teen club, the Halloween program." I thought of tradition