The Lottery Case

The Lottery

By: Maité Cintrón

“Lottery in June, corn be heavy son,” said Old Man Warner as he talked to Mrs. Adams during a June 27 afternoon as the lottery day pass down in a village. This sacred event “The Lottery” was conducted every June 27 in the village by the coal business chief Mr. Summers with the help of the post master Mr. Graves. They both arranged the whole event by making the slips of paper that will be put in the black box, box in which every person of the village took a paper off to participate in this social event. The person who took out the paper with a black spot was the one who won the sacred lottery. The day before the lottery the black box was taken in the save of Mr. Summer’s coal company and locked up until it was ready to be taken to the square next morning. There were also list of each families members made by Mr. Summer to conduct the lottery properly because everyone who lived on the village had to participate in this social event.

As the clear and sunny morning of June 27 started people from the village began to gather around the square which took place between the post office and the bank. As soon as I entered the square what capture my attention the most was that a group of children, all men stuffed their pockets with stones and eventually made a huge pile of the stones gather in a corner of the square and guarded it against the raids of the other boys. Girls stood aside talking, and then men gather surveying their own children. Last but not least, came the women whom stand by their husband calling their children. Before the event began, Mr. Summer together with Mr. Graves arrived to the square with the black box and the stand.

As soon as Mr. Summer made the move to start the lottery Mrs. Hutchinson arrived, she was the last one to arrive to the event; giving her pardons to Mr. Summer she joined her husband and let the event begging. Man were called first to get their ticket,