The people of this small town begin to grab stones and run toward Tessie who is standing now in the middle of the square. Tessie exclaims it’s not fair she gets hit in the head. The entire town is now stoning Tessie. This is a story of a town stuck in a murderous tradition countless lives have been taken and for nothing more than an old tradition. The setting of the town is just simple peaceful. You think of a beautiful summer’s day the birds are chirping the sun beams shining ever so brightly upon this quiet little town. Nothing suggests that this will be a scene of death in a matter of hours and this shows that everything is not as it seems. No matter how good something looks on the outside on the inside it could be rotted out. This tradition of holding this lottery has been going on for as long as anyone in the town can remember even the oldest member Old Man Warner. In the story it is said that other villages spoke on stopping the lottery and others have stopped it all together. Old Man Warner believes that if the lottery was to end then chaos would follow the society or structure would fall. The only changes in the towns traditions have come from suggestions by Mr. Summers he seems to want something almost anything to change. He got the people to replace the woodchips with slips of paper. Although this is a small change