Part 1 of Essay
Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" is a short story with a memorable and chilling plot. It tells the tale of a town in which the random and systematic execution of a citizan has become a yearly occourrence. Beyond the horror of the plot lies an even more powerful theam: "great evil can be masked by mindless adherence to trad ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... be masked by mindless adherence to tradition. For example, the author states, "Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual, and lost the original black box, they remembered to use stones (514)." Although some are beginning to question the continuation of the lottery, the old-timers continue to cling rigidly to the necessity of tradition. "They do say ..... that over in north village there talking of giving up the lottery..... ," and "..... some places have already quit lotteries..... (513)." When Old ....