"The Lottery"/direct characterization

"He was a round-faced jovial man..."  This is an example of direct characterization.  It describes the man using many direct adjectives.  "The Lottery," like many of the other stories, was quite interesting, but a bit weird.  First reading this, I thought they may have actually been drawing for the lottery.  However, this lottery was a bit different.  Whoever's name was chosen, they would be stoned to death.  This would not be a lottery that I would want to win.  However, for this tribe, most people were excited about it and wanted to be chosen.  I feel that some people thought of it as an honor.  They performed rituals almost like the Aztecs.  The Aztecs would sacrifice people to the gods.  The people in this village would sacrifice people to have their crops grow.  This was a very weird story!