The lottery

Hey ya, dudes!! I just finished reading a short story by Shirley Jackson untitled the lottery. If you wanted to read the whole story, please go to this website:http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lotry.html. I have mixed feelings after the story. It was certainly an unusual story. Resources tell me that people expressed "admiration, confusion and even anger" at the story when it was published. It had a lot of relevance to modern day society, in my opinion.
The story revolves around the hypocrisy of mankind. Take Tessie Hutchinson for an example. She is a person who wanted to see and watch others being unlucky and getting stoned to death but never thought that herself would be the person getting stoned to death. She only wanted to see others suffer and make herself benefit and happy. People nowadays are also like that. For an instance, in schools, often, students would mock others of something and laugh, but they never thought that they would be the one to be mocked at later.
The lottery also shows the internal fear and terror in human beings. The villagers knew that the lottery is a ritual whereby others are sacrificed for the sins committed by other people. They knew that it is not the right way. However, noone dared to stand out and protest against the ritual but just followed the crowd. They do not dare to stand up against authority. This is very common nowadays. In schools, when teachers asked the students who wanted to volunteer for the blah blah blah job, noone raised their hands and stared at each other, waiting for the few people to respond. It will always be the same few who would volunteer. In companies, too. When the director or someone required a tough job, everyone would exchange glances...... It is everywhere, also on buses! When an elderly arrived, everyone would pretend to sleep, or glance out of the windows, not attempting to offer a seat for the elderly. No one would take the initiative to be the first to do something.