In the short story, “The Lottery”, gives the readers a surprisingly ending that the villagers are throwing stones at a girl and beat her into death. In general, we always believe that terrible matters are done by abnormal people, but somehow our history records have proven that this concept of terrorists is wrong. The most dangerous person is always the one who seems to be normal. This story also brings us a concept about the vacuously fallowed of tradition. People hold the tradition event for no reason and believe that they are supposed to do because everyone else is doing it. It reminds me of real life, we always tend to follow other people without a particular reason. We follow the fashion, we buy cell phones, iPods or cars which just because everyone has them, and we suppose to do so.
Elie Wiesel’s speech and “The Lottery” both show the same theme about the indifference toward the sufferer. In the story of “The Lottery”, when the girl is being attacked by the stones, nobody is cared about her feeling or speak out to stop this terrible abuse. Also, there are plenty of examples in Elie’s speech that indicates people’s indifference of those tragic victims. Such as St. Louis affair, the ship which carried numbers of Jews was sent back by the United State, the greatest democracy country.
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Your comments have shown an excellent understanding of both the story and the speech.
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