Theme
The Theme of this story is about how people communicate with each other of how people will do the lottery and would enjoy what they would do next. Old Man Warner fears to stop the lottery because he thinks that if the lottery will stop then people would be killing other people out of no where or will be randomly killed and he doesn't want that to happen, that is why they hold up the lottery so that no questions ask if they ever are going to kill someone because everything is there already. Evidence and proof and right to do such a thing.