Indifference is perilous

1. "The Perils of Indifference" by Elie Wiesel suggests and points out the negative effects of standing by and not taking action until either it's too late or it involves you in some way or another. Without intervening with any of the negative deeds carried through in our world it can only effect everyone negatively in the end.

2. I would compare "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson to a book I read by Stephen King titled "The Long Walk" This story started out fairly similar, boys gathered for some sort of competition and the winner would get some sort of prize. As the story progressed the reader learned that those of the boys that failed to continue walking were shot down and killed until only one boy remained. This was the opposite of "The Lottery" since in the lottery the "winner" was the only one to get killed but still carried the same basic idea.

3. Elie Wiesels speech relates to "The Lottery" in that people don't usually have a care in the world about what's going on until either they're involved or it's too late. People carry on to support the wrong doings and don't bother to make any attempt to stop it. An example of this from Elie Wiesels speech would be "Why did some of America's largest corporations continue to do business with Hitler's Germany until 1942?" and is also shown in "The Lottery" with Old Man Warner continually putting people down for wanting to move past the lottery. If people were able to move past their fears of what other's thought of them when they choose to speak up then none of the terrible events mentioned in Elie Wiesels speech or "The Lottery" would have ever transpired.

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It was a day like no other. The sun was shining and the birds were singing. However, this day would prove to be quite different from any other. Cars zipped past, Bobby prepared to bolt across the busy highway. His friends tried to warn him and stop him but all he said was "I got this in the bag." Bobby had no intention of ever running across a busy highway in the middle of the day but, his unjust actions in the past had to be made up for and doing something extremely stupid was the only way people could think of for him to make up for them. What goes around comes around. Since Bobby was a little cocky, he figured that this would  be mere childs play and that he would make it across the highway with no problem at all. Of course, those that knew Bobby well enough knew that he was all talk and no action so nobody truely expected him to carry through with it. So, when Bobby began to make to make a run towards the edge of the road he was immediately tackled down to the ground and knocked unconscious.

Once Bobby woke up it was quite evident he was as blind as a bat since all he could really do was stumble around and looked a little similar to a drunk old man trying to find his way on the sidewalk. "For Gods Sake! I've had it up to here with you guys!" Bobby angrily growled at the surrounding friends. "Now I can't even do the run as I'm barely able to stand up straight!" Everyone knew that Bobby was grasping at straws as he was now standing up quite fine and even walking around with no difficulties at all. But, they didn't want to hurt Bobby's feelings and just let it be.

"Cross your fingers for next time hey Bobby!" someone shouted from out behind him, he cast an angry glance back towards the group. "Haha, Just pulling your leg Bobby!" From the beginning they all knew Bobby was in over his head and they just carried on with their day, not bringing it up again.