The Lottery

The video that I just saw was really disturbing. However, it did really help me understand the short story better. Maybe because I wasn't really paying attention. Like the whole idea of a lottery is to win a prize but this prize involves you dying by getting hit by stones. Even the kids can participate in this event. So I think the people in this story like the lottery. But when they win its a whole differents story. They say it isn't fair and make up all these excuses but in the end they get stoned. If they didn't win they would have easily stoned the person that did as they pleaded to stop. It is a really wierd story and I can not imagine having the lottery in New York. I would surely move because I would not like to get stoned nor would I like stoning other people. In this story they have the option but they don't. I really don't understand why that is.