Some believe that the “official of the lottery should stand” a certain way when he sang the chant, others believe that he should “walk among the people”. No one exactly remembers the how and why of the tradition, most have become completely desensitized to the murderous rituals. Because the adults have forgotten the tradition’s history, the children know even less and they are desensitized to murder, thinking it’s just another fun holiday like Christmas. Jackson expressed clearly how violence that occurs around us or that we cause is pointless and has no purpose. Yet this violence and evil grows from a seed within our hearts and minds waiting to free itself in times of panic and turmoil. We need to learn to find solutions to our problems instead of putting the blame on others as means of a remedy. When there are no other corrupt and sinful human beings to kill, society will turn on itself. Even caring and normal human beings can throw stones. Forgotten traditions can also be extremely dangerous as Shirley Jackson points out in her short story. People hear what they want to hear and choose what rituals to keep for traditions. The simple game of telephone proves that as a society, we are just like the villagers, forgetting the original words but continuing on as if the words we know are the original.