Reflect on the characters last names.many have names that could have symbolic meaning .ask a higher level question about the characters names.after reading,return to your question and write a text based answer .

The irony around Graves and Summers is evident when we see what exactly the lottery entails.

Tessie Hutchinson's name is based on the famous Massachusetts Bay Colony religious pioneer named Anne Hutchinson. She was labeled a heretic and excommunicated or kicked out of the Puritan Church.

Jeremy Bentham was a British philosopher who advocated the separation of church and state.

The French translation for Delacroix is "of the cross."

Old Man Warner "warns" people not to stop the lottery.

I believe "Mars" was the Roman god of war.