The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, thoughts and opinions

Recently, I've read the story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson and, in my opinion, it's very fascinating. The change in feelings throughout the whole story is an experience that not many books can match. I was honestly astonished once I figured out that it was no regular lottery, but a game on life and death. At the mention of the title, and through the majority of the book, one thinks "Oh, how lucky will be the one who gets chosen on the lottery" since one has this sense of knowing 100% what the lottery is about. This same sense makes the final even more surprising, which mades us remember that we think that we know everything, but the truth is that we don't know most of the things we should, and most of the things we do know does not hels us in the way they should. One example is Old Man Warner, one supposes that this man is a great man by refusing to let this tradition be destroyed, but when reading the book again, one realises that the tradition, in reality, is killing people, and should be better off dead. However, people seem so... connected to this tradition that it almost seems like it would be cheating your town if you stopped it. In reality, this book will stay forever in me, without any chance of me forgetting it nor another book matching its state of not really knowing what's going on.

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