The author spend so much time Telling a story to tell us in the end tessie dies why to learn from her mistakes and learn for we cant do what happens in the story.what happend in the story and at the end is tessie dies but it was becouse she win the lottery then got stoned so i guess she had no choce but to get stoned.the thing showed us when tessie died is to not be a fallower but a winner dont hate dont risk your life in vain.The story was about over population and killing for less people in the state or town or countrey or city.the story was about the lottery and oh ever wins it would die for the grand prize but that isent realy a prize but the story dosent make sence in the frist place.it was a process of elminataion in the town to win the lottery and oh ever name come up get killed tessie name come up then she got killed by geting stoned Tessie dident want to die so she fougth for a well but at the end she had no choce in the matter she won the lottery tessie went from win the lottery to dieing so the story says we can die any time you wil never know.