If you win you will die

Authors note: This piece was written to meet my final goal of scoring a 9 or higher in themes and the explain some of the many themes in " The Lottery" 

      If someone told you  won the lottery wouldn’t you be ecstatic!! Well if you won in the story "the lottery", you wouldn’t be. The short story, " The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson  incorporates many themes. In the beginning villagers gather in the square as they have done for many years. Every body who lives in the village, their family name is placed in a big black box. The names get shuffled and drawn, and the winner ,well they die.

     To begin with, one of the many themes in this short story is tradition. We all have traditions that we tend to follow. Same with the characters in the story. The tradition is the actual lottery. Every year one person is picked and the winner dies. This tragic event takes place because of tradition. The people think change is not normal an scoff at the villages who stopped the tradition. 

   This theme takes place in another book called the Hunger Games by Suzan Collins. Theme takes place in  this book with the annual hunger games. It is a 74 year long tradition The citizens cannot  put an end to the reaping ceremony. Also it is similar because the "winner" or the person picked is most likely going to die.

  Overall, " the lottery", is filled with many themes. It has tradition and death for no sane reason. Theses characters must follow tradition and in the end tradition bring terrible end to person or peoples lives.