The Lottery

Q5: Relevance to today

What can we learn from this story? (How is it relevant to our society today? Do we have our own form of 'lottery' as in the story?)

What we can learn from the story is to voice out our opinions.
We should not be so cruel and do horrible things like stoning others, which was what they villagers in "The Lottery" did to Mrs. Hutchinson.

If we feel that something that we have been doing is wrong, we should stop doing it. Mrs. Hutchinson only knew that holding the lottery every year was wrong when she was the one who "won" the lottery and was going to be stoned. If knew that holding the lottery was wrong right from the start, she should have just voiced out her opinion to the villagers and not keep it to herself until the moment that she was the one that was going to be stoned. If she had voiced out her opinion earlier, the people who previously "won" the lottery would not have been stoned.

We do have our own form of lottery. However, the winner of the lottery would not be stoned or injured. But in our kind of lottery, the winner gets prize money.