“The Lottery” Theme

Author’s Note: This piece of writing is a short response about the main themes of the short story “The Lottery”.

What would you do if you won the lottery? Well in the story “The Lottery” Mrs.Dekkacroy’s husband was the lucky one who won but he actually wasn’t that lucky. This lottery is one that you don’t want to win. Once your name is called there is no turning back. If you win you get to stand in a circle and have the entire village threw stones at you, until you die. It’s pretty much a life or death situation.

After reading this story there were several themes but the main one was the rocks. The little boys playing with the rocks were actually collecting them to use during the lottery. This is a main theme because the rocks are a common topic throughout the book. In the end of the story the winner of the lottery was stoned to their death, with the rocks that the little boys were playing with in the beginning.

Even though the lottery happened every year in this village the people who lived there still weren’t used to the idea. The lottery was one of the main ideas in this story. But not only because the story was written around the idea of the lottery. It’s because the lottery is a tradition and once a year some is killed by their own friends and family. It’s better to be killed right away with one big stone than a thousand little ones that take forever to kill you.