The Lottery and The Perils of Indifference

1. "The Perils of Indifference"....The Danger of Crime and Punishment.. The Consequences of abstraction and the seduction of evil

2. In the story The Lottery the ending was very ironic. How the story is explained until the point where Mrs. Hutchinson is stoned to death by her friends her own kids and husband is perfectly normal just like any other day where the sun is shining and the kids are playing. "The Lottery" is an ironic title for the story when you read or hear the word lottery you think of happiness, luck and money. You do not think of death by the townspeople which is so disturbing that those people in the story show no sort of emotion to events taking place, they do not try to stop or object whats going to happen to their mother, wife, and friend. You can connect these events to the story to many events that have happened in history such as the holocaust where the townspeople do not show emotion as they are killing off one of there own just like the Nazis in the holocaust and Mrs Hutchinson who is so helpless and being betrayed on so many different levels just like the Jewish. You can connect it the Rwanda genocide where the Tutsis are killing off the Hutu's when they are both so much like, also you can connect it to books that have been written about the event and a movie called "Hotel Rwanda". Also you can relate it to events that are happening today not in such a tragic way but there are bullies in school that are beating on younger kids who are just like them and judges that give criminals a death sentence without showing a hint of emotion when the declare their fate. The Lottery also relates to the book i read called The Hunger Games. The Hunger games is in more of a futuristic world with alot of violance. Every year there is the hunger games where two people from each district, there is twelve in total and one boy and girl is chosen from each. There names are written on papers in big spheres which entails death or victory. Which relates to the box from The Lottery.

3. Elie Wiesel was a victim in the holocaust who wrote a detailed book about his life and surviving in the holocaust called "Night" and has wrote over forty books about wartime atrocities against the Jewish people. His speech "The Perils of Indifference" is very powerful and emotional. It relates the to the story "The Lottery" in many ways. Elie's speech he is talking about real events in the world and "The Lottery" is using symbolism to relate to such events. "The Lottery was written in 1945 which is right during the World War two and the holocaust. Mrs Hutchinson is the Jewish people, the Hutu's, the Jewish people on the boat who came to the shores of America and were sent right back to where they cam from, Mrs Hutchinson is the Japanese who we turned against because we thought they were spies and we put them in internment camps and destroyed their shops and sold their homes. Mrs Hutchinson is everyone who is helpless and cannot defend herself because in the end they could not avoid death. The townspeople in "The lottery are the Nazis, they are the people who did not act against the holocaust who just pretended everything was okay, who were indifferent, the Tutsis, and they are the U.S.A who turned away the boat of hundreds of Jewish people that they could have saved. Mr Summers who was in charge of the black box which decided every body's fate was Hitler, the one in charge of it all. Mr Summers was and is everyone with a title that could have done something to stop or make a difference but simply chose not to because they were too scared.