In The Lottery, the main theme is tradition. The Lottery is actually a ritual that has been going on forever in this town. When a person wins the lottery, then his/her family pick from a box again. Whichever person picks the black dot on a piece of paper gets killed. Many people in the story talk about how the ritual should be changed and shouldn't go on anymore. The elders of the town can't stand a change, because this is the ay that they have been living since they were born. In the story, it doesn't say why or how the lottery started, it only tells how it works, and the reason they still do it. If it explained why or how it started, then maybe it would seem  easier to understand why the elders won't change it. Now it just seems that the elders want to see people killed, because they won't change the laws concerning the lottery.

Jeffrey Saint Thomas Alejandro de Smith a la Jojo the Pickle

I watched Phillip day after day eat different pickles out of the jar. Some of them were skinny, and some fat. I also watched as Phillip would stand on the scale every day and then would start to cry. He was eating way too much, and the scale was proof. It was the next day that Phillip had taken his long vacation. I had wanted to be eaten for my entire life, and the chance was slipping away. 2 weeks later when Phillip still hadn't returned, I started to get sick. I was puking every day in my own pickle jar, and it was starting to fill. Now only my neck and head remain above the jar. I hope that Phillip will return soon so I can be eaten at last and freed from this terrible place. OHHHHH!!!!! Here it comes again. Blagh!

The poor pickle named Jeffrey Saint Thomas Alejandro de Smith a la Jojo had drowned in his own puke.

The tomato Rico Jones watched from a distance s one of his greatest friends who he had never even met died slowly.