A Passion for Stones

In general, "The Lottery" is about a normal town that gets together every year on one particular day and pick sheets of paper out of a box. Every year that box sits in a different place, one year it sat on the shelf of a grocery store, until it needs to be brought out again. And is placed in the center of the town. Everyone goes about their life like nothing is going to happen. The women and the girls in the town stand to one side and talk gossip amongst themselves. Where as the boys gather stones to play with. They all start to gather in the center of the town. One by one their name gets called, and one by one they gather up by the box and pick a sheet. When its all done, the last person with a black dot on the piece of paper, is considered the chosen one. The chosen one gradually walks off the platform continuously yelling "It isn't fair, it isn't fair." That was the last thing that came out of her mouth before she was living with the stones.

"The Lottery," reminds me of real life, because people hurt other people in one way or another, whether its taunting them or beating them. For example, "Pink Day," when a boy came to school in a pink shirt, a couple of boys started to make fun of him. But then the next day, everyone was wearing a pink shirt. Just because someone is different doesn't make it right to hurt him/her.

"The Perils of indifference," by Elie Wiesel is along the same lines as "The Lottery." The only difference is The Lottery is fictional and Perils of Indifference is real. Perils of indifference is about how we hurt people everyday and we don't even care. For example, the Holocaust, or Rwanda.