The Importance Of Traditions In The Lottery

Traditions have excited in many cultures, and they have been in many generations. They make us who we are and where we come from. Our ancestors gave us traditional clothes to foods and even the religious beliefs. Only because we have traditions it will not mean we should follow every single one. We cannot follow bad traditions and justified them only because they were in our generations and even when there is a good one we do not follow them because they will not fit in the modern world. Traditions can or will not be followed depending on the generations to generations. “The Lottery” is about a small town with a population of 300 villagers. They all gather June 27th once a year to perform the lottery, as the adults get ready for the ceremony, the kids play and gather piles of stones. When Mr. Summer starts to perform the

Now all the family members must grab another piece of paper and this time Mrs. Hutchinson was the one who was holding the “marked” piece of paper. The story ends with Mrs. Hutchinson being stoned to death. In the short story “The Lottery” the villagers started to forget the roots of their traditions, but the practices were important for the Old Man Warner and the older people. All though some of the people that live in the village think that it was wrong or unfair what they are doing; they chose to stay for the tradition. The villagers kept the lottery generation thru generation, but most of the rituals their ancestors used got lost in the tradition. “The original paraphernalia for the lottery had been lost long ago . . . (page 1). Throughout the story, the villagers gave signs of not wanting to change much of the black box, and they want to keep as much of the tradition that they could. The villagers also, talk about the importance of keeping the material things the same, but most of the material things were replaced. “. . . Mr. Summer had been successful in