The question about the story Lottery

What is ironic about the discussion of the traditional or ritualistic activities surruond the lottery? What point do you think Jackson may be trying to make? When the viliagers talk about the lottery, it give us a sense: it is very old trandition and it seems to be very normal. It sounds like a ritual raised every year and gether every body together to celebrate something. No one will think it will be such a brutal thing. children are playing, adults are chatting about the crops, as if they don't know someone will be killed. There is only one conlusion. Every body is familar with it and every body gets used to it. From the dialogue, we can see the the hearts of these villager are stone; the spirit of them are numb; the soul of them are dead. They don't care about others' lives. the only thing they care about is their crops. I think the author here just want to emphasize the barbarity of the lottery through describing the calmness of these villagers. Additonally, by the end, the poor women still yell:' it is unfair.'. it also highlights that no one think it is wrong. The one who draw the paper with black spot is only a unlucky guy.