Do you find the narrator's tone strange, or even shocking? why? what theme about cruelty or injustice does this tone communicate?

I find the narrator's tone,

The theme about cruelty and injustice highlighted by this tone is that            

The tone used by the narrator in this story is strange to me because the story began as a very innocent tale but suddenly digressed to being a horrific story. That is quite unusual.

A reader will not even guess from the onset of the story that the stones being used by the children to play was meant to be used in executing the winner of the lottery- Tessie Hutchinson.

The entire story shows that cruelty and injustice are imbedded in some traditions. These unhealthy traditions should be abolished.

Learn more about "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson here:

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explanation:

the intellectual community is a place like a university where people with high marks, or original thought or an outstanding interest in something gather. they take classes together. they discuss things. they argue sometimes, and not always in a friendly way. but if they argue, it is because they are passionate about something, and there is nothing the matter with that.

lately i've been hearing rumors that it is not the way it was when i went to school. the one thing all schools used to have was free speech. the 1st amendment rights were sacred. now i'm hearing they are not. students can be reported and disciplined for giving an off the wall opinion.

that is shameful.

intellectual ideas are meant to be discussed. they are meant to be chewed up and worked on. that is the primary responsibility of every intellectual community. if that is not the way it is, then that is not a school to go to.

social media, in my opinion, and this is just an opinion. i wouldn't take it too seriously, complicates everything to do with human communication. you can want to share things and others feel they have the right to be very critical or sarcastic or mean about what you share. lack of respect is an immeasurable intolerable condition and social media abounds with that sort of thing.

one of the things i really like about is how careful people are because they must have some idea that the mods are exactly what the word says they are. they police this board very well, and what is so remarkable about them is that they are no older than the average grade 12 student.

my hat goes off to them (which means i respect them quite a bit).