The Peril of Indiffrence.

The risk of apathy.

The ending of 'The Lottery" is shocking and completely un noticed and brings it to a completely random ending. Showing that these people act like regular normal but when brought up with an idea used for thousands of years, shows that they can be swayed to what the other people do. This story seems bizarre to any reader but it can be connected to real events from history. The people involved with WWI were regular normal everyday people. But when power was brought onto them, they become an entirely different person. Following this ruthless dictator the regular normal person became the terrorizer. Just like the stoning in The Lottery once an idea was decided people became almost an alter ego. Another example is racism. This relates to the story because its like a person is being singled out for really no reason. Just because of there skin colour it made them this like terrible person. But for what reason? No whatsoever, and it makes no sense. The people usually calling out the black person were regular people, who went on with there regular days but when confronted with the situation that they had grown up with they would act on it. In The Lottery the ideas the people had grown up with were all they knew, they knew no different and didn't know any different way to act. Elie Wiesel's speech relates to The Lottery in a numerous different ways because he they both show that people can seem one way and then turn around and be someone or something completely different. He says that in his speak as well that when the Nazi's invaded they were just regular people that he had known. Along with in The Lottery the townspeople were regular everyday people and when confronted with what was known as " tradition" they become new people it didn't matter if the person being was stoned was a friend or family member it was what they had grown up with and lead to believe was right. The Nazi's trained there soldiers to believe what they were doing was right and they followed direction. They were trained to believe the lies being told. It didn't matter if they new the person that they would be sending to the gas tank it was told to be the "right" thing.