Tradition

Authors Note: This is a creative piece on the theme of The Lottery and what other books it relates to.

The lottery, looks like a innocent book but no. One theme that relates to the Lottery is tradition because they do that every time they have a lottery. It is basically a tradition that the village does and will always do for the next couple years but it depends. The whole throwing rocks thing is a tradition they will carry on. 

 Next, I think that this story is tradition because of the tradition that happens in the village of over 300 people. They do the "lottery" every year and the person who wins or gets the black cross dies by getting stoned. They do that every year because they were born into doing that and that is their tradition to do that. They really don't have a choice its just kind of automatic for them to do that. If I were someone throwing stones, then I would not throw it because I don't know their tradition and I would feel too bad.

In conclusion, one other story that relates to this theme is After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick because every breakfast is a tradition for Jeffery to have oatmeal because he was a cancer survivor and he always makes himself oatmeal and that’s basically a tradition because it had been happening since he was a young child.