In the short story "The Lottery", author Shirley Jackson creates a truly mind-blowing situation that uses theme, characterization, and setting as part of the story's society throughout the story. This short story talks about the traditions of what they do in a part of their society. In TheLottery, one of the characters named Jackson shows a different side of society which partly includes traditions, families, and the horrible intensity that people can show towards each other. It's crazy how in our society we don't always see everything. It is known that traditions are important in most concepts of groups, religions, holidays and schools, but not all traditions are necessarily good. Influence can play a key role in tradition and in this short story many are influenced by it. As the years pass, traditions will always be present, but not always recognized. At the beginning of the story, it is set on the morning of a June day, in a village with about three hundred people. Everyone gathers for the annual lottery draw. Everyone must participate, no matter how old you are. Everyone always wonders about this black box, even though that black box has a huge impact throughout the story. This box has been around for years and is always kept for the annual lottery draw. Everyone in the city came with their family and they all know each other because they live in the same village with a small number of people. The nervousness is always growing and everyone is impatient with the drawing. We tend to wonder how some of these families raise their children, but as the story goes it gets interesting. Reading the story makes me think... halfway through the paper... the children gave her son some pebbles so that he too could participate in his mother's torture. This terrible tradition is embedded in the life of the descendants of the country, so it is passed down from generation to generation. All these people are taught to let loose the evil within them during the lottery. The evil in people is brought out during the lottery. It is more of an evil kept inside than hidden. All this evil comes out once a year for the lottery and takes over the minds and bodies of all its participants, which makes them see this ritual as a normal tradition that has been kept alive for many years. Everyone has evil within them, but the lottery gives everyone the opportunity to accentuate this evil and free it. All in all, traditions can go in any direction, taking place in any type of situation.