The Dark Tradition of The Lottery

The animated script portrays the events of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” by following a small

rural town as it gathers for its annual ritual. At first, the atmosphere seems

ordinary and almost festive as families assemble in the village square. Mr. Summers arrives

with the town’s traditional black box, signaling the beginning of the lottery.

One by one, the heads of households draw slips of paper. When Bill Hutchinson receives the marked

slip, his wife, Tessie, immediately insists that the process

was unfair. The drawing shifts to the Hutchinson family alone, and Tessie ultimately

picks the marked paper. The script then reveals the town’s dark tradition: