It's the lesson the author is trying to teach you ,so it's another word for theme
See see above picture.....
Hermit was an enemy planning to kill the king but they reconcile and become friends. So his question was already answered by what recently happened. “Now is the most important time, the most important person is the one you are with and the most important action is to do good.
Answer:
- He bought some books yesterday ( into negative)
✓ He didn't bought any books yesterday
The village lottery culminates in a violent murder each year, a bizarre ritual that suggests how dangerous tradition can be when people follow it blindly. Before we know what kind of lottery they’re conducting, the villagers and their preparations seem harmless, even quaint: they’ve appointed a rather pathetic man to lead the lottery, and children run about gathering stones in the town square. Everyone is seems preoccupied with a funny-looking black box, and the lottery consists of little more than handmade slips of paper. Tradition is endemic to small towns, a way to link families and generations. Jackson, however, pokes holes in the reverence that people have for tradition. She writes that the villagers don’t really know much about the lottery’s origin but try to preserve the tradition nevertheless.
