"The Lottery" reminded me of The Hunger Games. I would also like to say that I missed who the antagonist of the story is because I was too excited about Mr. Costello making a Harry Potter reference. And ALSO saying schadenfreude! It was a good day. Oh! Also, I have read The Giver, and we said the settings seemed similar; I didn't like that story at all either. The babies die.
I thought this story was about tradition, and how sometimes it's sort of senselessly carried out. Annnnnd, um... the point of view is significant because the narrator is an objective but omniscient party. And the protagonist, I got, was the town. The title was ironic because the lottery is a frivolous thing people do in meager hopes that something great will come of it, whereas this lottery is a decidedly grave matter of deciding who gets stoned to death.
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