All of the following events exemplify the short story’s dark tone except...
Group of answer choices

“And someone gave little Davy Hutchinson few pebbles.”

Bill Hutchinson helps play a hand in his own wife’s murder

The boys collect round and smooth stones, which will cause a slow, more painful death

Other towns are giving up and not conducting lotteries anymore.

The correct answer is A: “And someone gave little Davy Hutchinson few pebbles.”

Explanation:

In this excerpt, the only event which doesn't exemplify the short story's dark tone is the first option. As we can notice, in all the examples we have some words which are suggesting to something dark and negative, as, for example, murder, painful death, giving up.

In the first sentence, we cannot notice the dark tone because the author uses some positive and pleasant words, as for example, little Davy, a few pebbles, so we can see that he/she is describing a child with some pebbles.

gregor could have been bullying her