Putting this blog together has been an amazing experience. I have never done a blog before, and it was challenging but a lot more interesting than doing a report. I chose this story because I had read it in high school so I had plenty of background knowledge on it and I really enjoyed this story. This experience taught me how to conduct research and analysis a story very well. Writing a blog also helped me find much more information than I would have found doing a report. The connection I made with “The Lottery” with the real world is that many people don’t really care about anyone but themselves, and that people can be so ignorant to changing tradition. This story was really gruesome and I really like reading stories like that. I thought this was a really fun project and I would definitely do this again.  🙂