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The story criticises the idea that we often feel pressure to "be like everybody else." This draw to conformity can be dangerous if "everybody else" is doing something immoral or unkind. The people in this society felt pressure to conform even though the lottery had a bad outcome (death of a community member each year).

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Another good thing to consider when pondering what the author wanted us to criticize the injustice of not listening to the voices of minorities or people whom think differently to the social norm. This is something that has become so common in the culture of tradition that I feel almost as if it's just as important to question traditions than follow them without thought.

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This is a very interesting ritual that they do because it always leads to someone being stoned to death even if they try to run away.

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I think it's critizing how we cling on to outdated traditions, but also how there's a blurry line between culture that should be preserved and nonsense that shouldn't. Old Man Warner expresses concern that the other villages are leaving behind their roots, and that losing the Lottery will be like losing a part of themselves, but the Lottery is stupid. It calls attention to whether we should preserve parts of culture that have negative connotations or originates in prejudice, even if they're a major part of our identities and culture.

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I think it's critizing how we cling on to outdated traditions, but also

how there's a blurry line between culture that should be preserved and nonsense that shouldn't. Old Man Warner expresses concern that the other villages are leaving behind their roots, and that losing the Lottery will be like losing a part of themselves, but the Lottery is stupid. It calls attention to whether we should preserve parts of culture that have negative connotations or originates in prejudice, even if they're a major part of our identities and culture.

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I think it's critizing how we cling on to outdated traditions, but also how there's a blurry line between culture that should be preserved and nonsense that shouldn't. Old Man Warner expresses concern that the other villages are leaving behind their roots, and that losing the Lottery will be like losing a part of themselves, but the Lottery is stupid. It calls attention to whether we should preserve parts of culture that have negative connotations or originates in prejudice, even if they're a major part of our identities and culture. duhh

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I think it's criticising the fact that sometimes people follow a tradition mindlessly without thinking about the outcome, even if it's a bad outcome. I also think it's criticising the fact that most of the time we don't listen to minorities in society, we usually over-look their opinion/view even if it's suggesting a better out-come for something.

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I think that the story is criticising how we as humans continue to follow traditions and habits even if we can see the outcomes of them being potentially harmful as long as they aren't directly harming us or putting us in severe danger. This is shown by the progression of how the people question the tradition as they see the likely hood of being affected by the tradition increase. Mrs Hutchinson is first shown questioning the tradition when she finds out that her family was going to be affected, and when she realises that she is the one who is going to be stoned to death. This is interesting as it shows how the rest of the characters feel forced to comply with the tradition even if they directly see it affecting a person as they fear it could end up putting them in danger.

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i think they will throw people under the bus for their own benefit driven by fear of the lottery. It shows how people will act like your closest friends but when a major thing or tradition in this case happens they turn on you without questioning why they have to carry it along or without taking chances that nothing will happen if they leave you be. It shows in the story that instead of bringing people together its ripping them apart.

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I think it is criticising how we can mindlessly follow tradition without reflecting on whether it is working anymore. This lack of critical reflection can lead to us having practices that are outdated, pointless and even destructive. I think the context is relevant because the story was written just after World War Two where the Holocaust led to the mindless murder of over three million Jewish people. This parallel makes the story even more chilling as it blurs the lines between fiction and non fiction. It shows that these criticisms are real, relevant and as horrifying dystopian fiction. - COCO

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I think it is criticising  how we can mindlessly follow tradition without reflecting on whether it is working anymore. This lack of critical reflection can lead to us having practices that are outdated, pointless and even destructive.  I think the context is relevant because the story was written just after World War Two where the Holocaust led to the mindless murder of over three million Jewish people. This parallel makes the story even more chilling as it blurs the lines  between fiction and non fiction. It shows that these criticisms are real, relevant and as horrifying dystopian fiction.

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I think it criticises that we as humans mindlessly follow traditions because we feel like we have to follow majority, and we do not question if that way of living is morally right or wrong. We see the villagers normalising sacrificial murder and glorifying it as a good thing.

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I think it criticizes the lack of change in some societies over the years and that some societies continue old traditions without knowing why they do them.

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I think story criticizes the idea of mindlessly following traditions and thoughtlessly passing them down to the next generation; it's almost like the author is almost implementing the concept of questioning things that we find to be normal practices in society, almost forcing us to think differently.

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I think that The Lottery is trying to criticise the fact that mindlessly killing people and children is not okay, I think this because World War 2 had just finished and many many people were killed in the process.

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it criticizes about how people will follow tradition even if they think that it's not a good tradition and wont realise.
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I think The Lottery may be criticizing how we are so quick to sacrifice lives for a 'greater cause' such as war (because this was written soon after ww2 it could be relevant to the story). When conflict arises between nations sometimes we start wars and don't think of the lives that will be lost and instead think of it as a 'noble' sacrifice. This is not worth the loss of lives in my opinion. This relates to the story because the towns-people are sacrificing their own friends and families lives just for good crops, which may be seen as a good cause for them and shows why many of them don't second guess this act. Similar to war. We are following tradition.
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The story criticises that society takes so long that move on with their old ways and are too blind or brainwashed to see past tradition. It completely changes beliefs of the people in the story and when it doesn't go in their favor, then only then they realise the cruelty of the sinister tradition.
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I think the story was criticises how people can turn against their own family just to get away from death

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I think the story criticizes how we as humans think the things we do are fine to do or can be easily justified in our modern-day society. Like how we used to think that white people were better than any other colour of skin. And how some traditions need to be questioned. Also, people in minorities try to speak out about things but people don't listen. And how the "norm" for things we do are questionable.

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I think the story criticises the way a lot of traditions are mindlessly followed in our society. We may not think of them as traditions or be as vocally passionate about following them, but there are so many things we do simply because everyone else does it and it has been done for a long time, and we don't stop to question it's reason or outcome.

I also think it criticises the way we turn on each other so easily. When the story starts, everyone seems to get along with each other, but we slowly start to see them turn on one another. First families turn on other families, then households turn on each other, and then even couples turn on each other and children turn on their parents. Instead of fighting each other, the villagers could've fought the tradition together and stopped it.

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I think that the problem being highlighted is that people are not willing to change even if the tradition is outdated or unnecessary.  This is reflected in real life in the way we treat new things and ideas in that people often reject trying new things ever since childhood when kids don't want to eat their vegetables or anything that they haven't tried before.
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