Deception

How do you like it when a good friend of yours plays a trick on you? I like many others dislike it for the vast majority of the time. This time however I was deceived into thinking that The Lottery was about a person winning a bunch of money, but instead the winner of this lottery met a very painful death.

The theme of The Lottery is deception. There are many examples of deception throughout the story. The first example of Deception is the title itself. The title is a form of deception because when you here the Lottery you think that someone is going to win a lot of money, but in this case you do not want to win the Lottery. The winner will of this lottery is stoned to death because it is believed that this tradition will bring a good harvest.

Another example of deception in this story is the mood of the townspeople in the short story. In the beginning of the story people were very happy. The adults were talking just as if it was a normal day. As the grownups were talking the kids “eventually made a great pile of stones in one corner of the square and guarded it against the raids of the other boys” It seemed like the kids were just passing time before they started the lottery, but they were actually gathering rocks to throw at the unlucky winner of the lottery. Even when the mood changed into more seriousness I thought that they were just anxious to see who was going to become rich not who was going to be stoned to death.

The reason I didn’t dislike the deception in The Lottery was because it came as a surprise to me. Whereas when a friend tricks me he makes me look silly which I don't like.  The surprise was the winner of this tradition called the lottery was I thougt people wanted to win because they would become rich. I did not foresee them being stoned to death.