The Perils of Lottery: Sythesis Write

Man kind is a seemingly deceptive race in the sense that the most average of people can commit the most horrible of acts. Through the ages we have been known to cause devastation to other human beings, from senseless murder to massive genocide. Evident in the story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, many of these acts have been done without purpose or reason or for worthless reasons such as hatred portrayed in the speech "The Perils of Indifference" by Elie Wiesel. "The Lottery" shows a small ordinary town that on an annual basis selects one random person to be stoned to death by the hands of the rest of the villagers for no reason stated in the story, just as in the second world war an average country is brought into a sudden hatred for a religion for reasons many people did not understand why. Humans in a sense are much like cats, cats by nature will kill anything tat is smaller than them without reasons or need, they will hunt down weaker beings for the simple enjoyment. Humans will do the same, if someone is smaller or weaker then complete control is required over the weaker person. If this control is lost then growth is allowed creating fear in the stronger persons mind making some sort of dispute inevitable. This is obvious in "The Perils of Indifference" but might explain the evolution of the event the lottery in "The Lottery" in the sense that the power gained from winning the lottery now might create hatred in the minds of those who lost and evolving to the point that the winner of the lottery became no longer a great achievement of luck, but rather a terrible result of bad luck. Both stories however show a strong passion of protection from a second party of a weaker force standing up against the force of that in power. Elie Wiesel thanks those of the American army who showed hatred for those who imprisoned the Jewish people during the war and although weaker than Germany, they pushed onwards as Tessie stood up against the entire village to protest the show of ill fortune bestowed upon her family. Average people given power in unruly circumstances will perform terrible tasks to those of whom they can use it against, it is the uneven distribution of power that causes us to commit such terrible acts.