Delacroix chose a stone so big that she had to pick it up with both hands… “Come on,” she said, “hurry up” (146). Ms. Delacroix is ​​a surprising character since a few pages earlier Ms. Hutchinson had confided to her about her delay in drawing and then when Ms. Hutchinson is chosen, she wastes no time in picking up a stone. What is introduced here is how quickly a friendly face can turn into betrayal simply to remain like the other group members. Stoning Mrs. Hutchinson is already a horrible affair, and then the narrator involves the children in the activity: "The children already had stones, and someone gave little Davy Hutchinson a few pebbles" (146). Obviously, adults in this situation have no shame in involving children. This ritual denounces death and instills in these children that it is an act of generosity for the rest of the village and its crops. The children make the whole scene barbaric since they blindly follow what their elders tell them without really understanding what they are doing. From a young age, they are taught to never deviate from the annual rhythm.