The people of the town believe in old customs that someone must be sacrificed once a year. Slips of paper are made for each …show more content…
The villagers don’t seem to know why they are doing the lottery, but go with it only because it is the tradition and has been for many years. Sacrifices only for the purpose of pleasing a god were required according to the villagers of the town. Jackson implies that the reason the town is sacrificing death to the gods is to receive blessing for their fruitful crops. As most of the people today, we see these practices to be unacceptable. Another town decided to stop this ritual and at the time of this story, had not lost their crops, but there’s no way to know if they ever