The lottery 10/18/11

The story takes place in a village June 27th, flowers are blooming, and everything is green. The village is relatively small, about 300 people. Some kind traditional or annual lottery is taking place. Mr. Summers is an important individual in the community who is the official of the black box. The whole village gathers around the black box on a stool. Mr. Summers reads the names of the man of each family, and each man comes up and takes a slip of paper out of the box. Once all the slips are drawn, each man of the family opens his slip and finds it is blank, except for one family. After, that family come up to the box, and the slip with the black spot is placed in the box again, with some white slips, enough for each member of the family. Each member of the family, in this case the hutchinson family, draws a slip. One person gets the slip with the black dot on it. That person is stoned to death by the rest of the village, with stones gathered earlier by kids and put in a pile. The village had been repeating this ritual since it started.