Theme and Symbolism

In the short story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, there is a wicked kind of lottery taking place. When most of you think of the word Lottery you think of prizes and fame, but that isn't how this lottery takes place. In the story they family's together and each family member gets a card from the black box. If you are the one that has a dot on your card you get killed. They throw rocks at you, and it agonizing and cruel way to die. The theme in this short story is violence and death. Violence symbolism's when the people are throwing rocks at that person. Death symbolism's once they are killed.