The Perils Of Indifference.

1. How dangerous it can become when people don't show interest or concern for something.
2. I connected the story "The Lottery" to mob mentality at sporting events. Particularly soccer in Europe. The crowd goes ballistic at these games, resulting in mass stampedes. While i have not personally experienced a stampede at one of these games, I did go to a soccer game in Madrid. And once I saw the thousands of people in the stands it was not very hard to imagine how mob mentality can make a huge impact here. There were close to 40,000 people in one stadium all jumping,screaming, and cheering for there team. It is pretty overwhelming, and from personal experience you do get caught up in the mentality of everyone in the stadium. So while it is not a very normal thing to have a stampede at a soccer game, but is very easy to get caught up in mob mentality while you are at one. Making the shocking ending to "The Lottery" a little more relatable. (Not saying i condone stoning people of course)

3. Elie Wiesel's speech relates to "The Lottery" because he is discussing how people do not intervene in the tragic events that are going on around them, and even get caught up in joining them. Elie also discusses how we see the children suffer form not intervening in tragic situations, this relates to the lottery because not only could a small child be picked to get stoned, but they also may lose a parent or a sibling to the lottery. He talks about how older generation actions affect the younger generation, and in both stories it is for the worse.