'Rituals In The Lottery'

“Rituals are important to us as a society. It ties us to our traditions and our history” Miller Williams. In some ways tradition can be viewed as a disease amongst smaller communities, as they try to keep connections between past and current generations. In the short story “The Lottery” tradition and rituals have been proving to have deadly consequences if followed without any remorse. Although narrative’s storyline begins slowly the relationship between the story’s theme and its conflict only help strengthen each other and the overall storyline as the story develops.
The theme of almost any story boils down to the main idea of the narrative in addition to the message the author was trying to portray in his writing. In “The Lottery” the author portrays the story as being an

Prior to the audience knowing the type of lottery being held the day carries on as a rather normal day. Children run about town square playing and gathering stones and rocks ,while the adults are preparing for the lottery later that evening. But the main item that seems to occupy the villager’s thoughts is the little mysterious black box in which the ballot for everyone was dropped into. Midway through the narrative she writes that the villagers don’t know much about the lottery’s origin but try to still preserve the tradition. Magnifying the theme of how the strength of tradition and willingness to fit in with others can lead people blindly to fulfill dangerous and deadly rituals such as human sacrifice. Old Man Warner is so faithful to the tradition that he fears the villagers will return to primitive times if they stop holding the lottery.Being so wrapped up in the idea of the tradition ,they get carried away and forget what they are doing is murder. And they don’t have a reason for doing it other than the fact that they’ve always held a lottery to kill. If the villagers stopped to question it, they would be forced to ask themselves why they are