In the story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, the author tells a story about "normal" townspeople. Jackson talks about a community that lives in the past, miles away from urban territory. The town doesn't have much other than a town square and a few farms. She makes the townspeople seem like your average people in the twenty first century. All of a sudden, Jackson reveals the towns true colors in a horrifically surprising ending. She makes it seem like the townspeople are just drawing lottery tickets for a huge prize such as money or something worth value. Then she decides to turn the opposite way and make the lottery ticket prize a one way ticket for no return. She makes the reader think that they are completely "normal" people, but then the people turn into murderers and kill one of the mothers in there town. An example of this in real life is The Holocaust. Hitler, made everyone in Germany believe that he was this "normal" man, but then he turned into a mass murderer and killed millions of people. Just like "The Lottery", Hitler seemed like a "normal" man and in the end of his life story, his life turns into a horrifically surprising ending.
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