I was very shocked to have read the ending of the Lottery. I now understand that the author made the beginning of the short story boring so there would be a shocking ending. The author foreshadowed the ending of the story by adding small hints at the beginning such as the village children gathering stones and the crowd being very tense.

The story resembles war because we know that it is a bad idea but we keep doing it just like the tradition of the lottery in the village.

Freja Cuddington