Theme Response for "The Lottery"

Theme response

In the short story “The Lottery” there is a lot of symbolism that makes the book good. some of them are, well to start off the main one I think is the lottery its self because it mainly stands for the tradition of the community to do it once a year. Another major one is the black box it mainly stands for death, tradition, and fear. How it represents death is that they are forced to pick a sheet of paper from the box and the person that won got killed. How it represents tradition is that they have used the same box since the lottery started and won’t fix it since it is sacred. How it represents fear is that the people fear taking a slip of paper out fearing they would win and get killed.

Another one is the big rock that the best friend picked up to use, this represents friendship because the best friend wanted to use the big rock so she would die quickly and she wouldn’t suffer. But don’t forget about the black spotted ticket this represents death and a curse, how it represents death is that if you pick this slip of paper you are the winner and the winner gets killed. How it represents cursed is that if you pick it, it has a curse that gets you killed. There is one more main one and that’s all the rocks that the kids collected they represent death and torture; it represents death because they are used to kill the winner. They represent torture because if they throw small rocks it will take a while to kill the winner and it is a form of torture.