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Reference Links:

http://sites.middlebury.edu/individualandthesociety/files/2010/09/jackson_lottery.pdf

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116924/

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/06/the-lottery-letters.html

= The Lottery; By Shirley Jackson =

The Story:
The Lottery story speaks of a town that annually has tradition where they choose to sacrifice a person of the community. Every year on the date of June 27th, a tradition is performed from where the males that are older than sixteen come up and pick out a slip of paper out of a sacred black box. The slips of paper were almost all blank, though only one of the slips of paper had a small coal made black dot directly in the middle of it. If you received the slip of paper with the black dot, your entire family would have to go up onto the stage and repeat the process of selecting the slip of paper and the unlucky one finds the black dot. When the person of the family finds the black dot on the piece of paper they selected, they would be ‘stoned’ which is another word for having stones thrown at you until you could no longer hold onto your own soul. This tradition was to go on for years, and with every year they would hope for a good harvest because of their sacrifice.

= Speaking with the lineage; =

Reports have been collected from current people with their ancestry connected to the people of the village where The Lottery was held. The Wikipedia Cool Information Team (Copyright) has interviewed a woman at the age of forty, who seems to have been connected to one of the most respected people in the village at that time. Her great grandfather was in charge of harvesting the farms every year, and she spoke with our team. According to her knowledge and judgment she states that The Lottery was a completely delusional idea. She states that never having anyone who stepped forward to try and stop the horrible tradition was just obscene. If none steps up or gives the idea that they don’t need to sacrifice someone and take them away from their loved ones every year, they can never even consider it while being wrapped up in their tradition.

Other reports have been collected from another son of a lineage, his great-great grand mother was one of the people and she lost her life in reply to the tradition. He seems to agree to the tradition, stating as to receive something you need to give something away. Every year, the people would sacrifice someone by stoning him or her. That is giving something, and in return they would receive a healthy harvest that would allow the others of the village to live. By those odds, if someone wasn’t sacrificed more than one person in the village would die. Nature works, as to receive you need to give something up.

The Truth Behind The Lottery
The Lottery, it is an old topic that not many remember. We decided to revive this old mystery, to find out what had caused the theory of sacrificing human life for a good harvest every year. With our new technology, and fresh minds to the team we were able to acquire enough information from the area surrounding the town and the area inside to make a well-supported hypothesis to why they assumed sacrificing was the only way. In the first year that this sacrificial theory was created, the people who moved into the farm had no knowledge of agriculture and had no technology that could benefit them in farming for their village. This caused the harvest to become spoiled and rotten, starving people for the winter and causing much havoc within the village. This resulted in people, looking for another way to grow healthy crops. They started to become desperate in all their struggles not working. Soon they turned measures that should have never been assumed of. Human Sacrifice. Once they tried that their next harvest was healthy, and the following one was healthy as well as they sacrificed someone every single year. Yet, we found traces of a temporary disease that was in their soil that was dying off, and they were unlucky to move to that area and to make a village there during that time just to witness the disease in their soil beginning to die off but that took the crops with it too. The following year, the disease had died off and throughout the time they had began practicing with agriculture and creating new tools to help with the farming. With every year, agriculture and technology improving they had prevented the ‘fluke’ that had happened once in the unlucky first years they moved in. To take pre-cautions though, they didn’t stop. They continued with the tradition, not wanting to take the risk of a bad harvest and starving the people again. Their population was rising, and a bad harvest was most likely the last thing they needed, as it would kill off a large amount of the population. With this report, we finally close the case of ‘The Lottery’.