Slips of Fate -The Lottery

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…the other person is his or her own mother, they celebrate that it is not they that are chosen. Although all life ends in death, in which fate may play a major role, we choose to believe that when the time to die comes we will have more control over our own destiny. More than Tessie Hutchinson or the other villagers do. As barbaric as it seems, the lottery will continue because it is tradition.