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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