Elie Wiesel’s speech the perils of indifference relates his experience in the holocaust to that of world events at the time. He said that the world is indifferent no matter what is going on whether it be the holocaust during wwII or discrimination or genocide now. He explained that people are indifferent because then they take no part or responsibility for anything when they are indifferent.” Indifference is not a beginning, it is an end. And therefore, indifference is always friend of the enemy for it benefits the aggressor” this quote says how indifference can actually help your enemy, so the more indifferent you are to events the more you hurt your cause.
The story the lottery by Shirley Jackson is different than things that would happen nowadays I related it to being in a sports team, you try as hard as you can to get as far as you can in the team but if everyone is better or more lucky than you you’ll get cut. Just like if you’re drawn in the lottery you get cut out of the village.
The story “The Lottery” relates to the perils of indifference in they way that the villagers follow tradition and are indifferent to what the person that loses feels about what is happening to them. He explains that when you are indifferent it doesn’t matter what your being indifferent about it’s never an answer, “Even hatred at times may elicit a response. You fight it. You denounce it. You disarm it. Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response.” The towns people are indifferent to the suffering of the person that lost because it is a cultural tradition to do so, that is like the people who were indifferent during the holocaust, they were told it was right so they didn’t care.
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