Tradition

How could one justify killing someone just because they drew a card? The story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson is about the barbarism people would do for the sake of tradition. An example would be the entire lottery overall. It is about stoning a person just because that they drew the wrong ticket, and the refusal to get rid of the practice because of tradition. "There always has been a lottery"

Old man Warner is one of the worst offenders of following tradition blindly. He is 77 years old, and every year there has been one. When he hears that another village plans to give up the lottery, he laughs and calls them a bunch of crazy fools. He calls young people stupid because they thought rationally. It was amazing back then that people would kill someone for the sake of tradition.

(Authors Note: This is a reading response from my book 'World War Z')

What happened in the cave with the terrorists? What was it that ripped them apart? "You could see by the blood trails, the shell casing, and pockmarks that the entire battle had originated from the infirmary,” Because of this, I know it was the infection. After reading a little farther, we know how much panic the people were in. “We discovered several cots, all bloody. At the end of the room we found a headless doctor, lying of the dirt floor next to a cot with soiled sheets and clothes and an old, left-footed , worn-out Nike high-top. The last tunnel we checked had collapsed from the use of a booby-trapped demolition charge. A hand was sticking out of the limestone, and was still moving.” The zombies escaped, and we know that they were not properly quarantined and will continue to infect other people.