"They stood together, away from the pile of stones in the corner, and their jokes were quiet and they smiled rather than laughed."
p. 264
This is really messed up. Reading this my first time, I just glanced over the detail that there was a pile of stones there. O yeah, I guess it was for the human sacrifice later. Reading this a second time, I picked up on many details foreshadowing the cult-like event to come that I gazed over in my first innocent reading. I got the ominous feeling that the lottery wasn't good to win, but the story's foreshadowings really can't be fully interpereted until the story is over. It was very interesting to go back and read all the little details hinting towards the stoning. In the quote, it shows the subtle changes in the peoples' character that foreshadows the lottery's meaning. However, why were they even there? From what I understood, they believed it would bring crops. Is it really worth killing one of their friends or maybe themselves over a dumb superstition? I just thought this story was pretty creepy in the way the characters' reacted to and handled the events.
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