This piece begins in the square of a picturesque village. Children enjoy collecting rocks on a hot midsummer day in preparation for the annual lottery. Questions begin to emerge as this piece emerges. The reader learns what is happening, but not why. Jackson's use of a third-person point of view allows the reader to be left out of the true meaning behind this town's lottery. Families continue to gather in the square while the slips of paper are placed in a black wooden box. The events that are about to happen are of great importance because all three hundred inhabitants of the village are present at this unclear