Four examples of irony in "The Lottery" and in your paragraph and for each example you must include at last two facts, reasons, incidents.

A major example of irony in "The Lottery" occurs when Bill
Hutchinson chooses the black spotted paper in the first round of picks.  Mr. Graves asks
for the number of people in the Hutchinson family, and Mr. Hutchinson does not include
his daughter Eva in the count.  On the first reading, one would assume that the least
number of people in the count will provide better odds for the family's winning the
prize.  However, Tessie boldly states that Eva and her husband should have to be
included in the count so that they can take their turn.  When Mr. Graves tells Tessie
that Eva draws with her husband's family, Tessie is angry.  When the reader learns at
the end of the story that the "prize" is death, this event is even more ironic--why
would a mother want her daughter to take her turn at possibly being killed?  Such irony
suggests that people may in fact resort to crude measures when they are fighting for
their own survival.