Lotter Paragraph

Kait Carr
Lottery Paragraph
Sophomore English
25 September 2007





The Lottery was barbaric because killing innocent people for the benefit of others, in this day and time is not accepted socially or politically. Not only do they kill these innocent people they kill them in a terrible fashion, they stone them. To death. This means that the people stoning the innocent person would have to get close and personal to kill one of there neighbors, close friends, or even one of there parents or siblings. They would slowly die stone by stone until either to much blood was lost or if lucky were knocked out by one of the stones, so they wouldn’t have to endure all the pain. But they wouldn’t just kill these people for the fun of it. There of course was a reason behind it, It was to sacrifice someone to the good of the crops. They believed that if the person sacrificed blood was in the ground that the land would be more fertile and that the crops would grow better that season and harvest better next fall. I think the reason that these people didn’t stop this barbaric tradition was because they were afraid that the crops really wouldn’t grow if they didn’t sacrifice someone. So there for they up held this tradition year after year.