"'Next thing you know, they'll be wanting to go back to living in caves, nobody work any more, live that way for a while.... There's always been a lottery.'" (pg. 268)
This short story has a point of view of third person objective. The narrator does not really describe the characters' emotions, he or she just tells the story. This lottery is very strange because it is a way to determine who is going to be a sacrifice The title threw me off because I was thinking that it would be about someone winning money or a certain prize. The original box has the significant meaning symbolizing the tradition of the people of this society. Traditionally, the people of the society did this to as a way to see who would be made a sacrifice to the sun god so he would grow the corn.. Now, the people just do it because it is a pattern. Participating in Mass is something that seems to have a close relationship to this. Catholics go to Mass every Sunday, but how many of them actually know what they are doing and saying and why? We seem to be like robots and just do and say as we are told without thinking through the true meaning of it.
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