"The Lottery"

In the short story, "The Lottery", there was many common themes used. One of the themes I noticed was corruption. This town was a little bit different that a typical town that we’re used to. Every year there is a lottery that place, and when you think of a lottery you normally think of winning something really good. But with this lottery it's just the opposite; you win, you die. This tradition of killing people when they win the lottery is an annual thing, so people surely don't question the procedure. Before they start drawing the cards, the one thing that I noticed was how people were acting , so their emotion and reaction to what was going on told me that this wasn't a normal lottery. The lottery starts, and all the men of the households are in charge of picking the cards. Once everyone is done drawing the cards, you see who has one the lottery and if you happen to have a mysterious black dot on your card, you have just been elected to die! Mr. Hutchinson in this story  chose the card with the black dot, and he was later stoned to death. When you really think about just the whole idea of killing people and having this lottery; you think of a town that is very messed up.