The Lottery and Other Stories

is the lottery collective act of murder

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The lottery is a collective act of murder. The context of tradition and ceremony does little to change what this town does. The irony is that the community has lost the reasons this tradition once might have had. There is a vague statement by Old Man Warner about crops but nobody seems to notice or care. What the town does remember is that they get to kill the person with the black dot.