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 What is the purpose of the ritual in "The Lottery"? 

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 What is the purpose of the ritual in "The Lottery"? 

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The purpose of the ritual in "The Lottery" is to keep tradition. In the story old man Warren says,"pack of crazy fools." He is calling people crazy because they stopped the lottery in their town.

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In the lottery one person gets killed, and the rest of the people live. In the hunger games one person lives and the others get killed.

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They both choose random people. They kill innocent people.

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What is the purpose of the ritual in The Hunger Games? 

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What is the purpose of the ritual in The Hunger Games? 

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The purpose of the ritual in the Hunger Games is to go to a "war" They have been doing this for along time. So most likely they keep doing it for tradition