I Tried to be Funny (CRR)

 The main theme of The Lottery is the gamble of life and death, how everyone hopes to not be chosen. The villagers in the town of The Lottery draw pieces of paper from a black box, taking chances in hope of avoiding the slip with the black dot. It's a very nervous affair and people are always hesitant about the slip they take. It is tradition for the villagers to enter the Lottery, then stone whoever draws the marked slip to death, in their own little version of Russian Roulette. This tradition is seemingly part of their religion, and to defy the Lottery is an act of blasphemy. Their lives are based on Chance whenever the time comes about.

The meme is connected to the story because it shows the reactions of drawing both a blank slip and the marked slip, or telling that even the villagers view the Lottery as a game of chance.. Those who weren't chosen in the final draw had reactions such as "...both beamed and laughed, turning around to the crowd and holding their slips of paper above their heads." Nancy and Bill Jr. were relieved they hadn't drawn the chosen paper, they had taken a chance and cone out on top. However when one of the villagers was selected for the stoning, she began claiming that the Lottery is a messed up idea, "'It isn't fair, it isn't right,' Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her." The villagers all plainly know it is all based upon chance, first shown in "Mrs. Hutchinson yelled. 'Make them take their chance!'" Each villager felt it right as long as everyone took a fair draw. Together this shows that the main theme of the story is that life, and The Lottery is based upon a twisted Russian Roulette, draw the marked item and you're done for.