I am sure there has been a time in where you have seen injustice, and you couldn't or do anything about it.
In relation to "The Lottery" near the end of the story, concept of the story was every year it was a tradition to pull papers out of a black box and it would say someones name, and that person would get brutally stoned to death. "it isn't fair," she said A stone hit her on the side of the head." This case of injustice doesn't phase anyone because it is a tradition, and everyone is used to it, and everyone is capable to killing that person. Now this story was writtin a number of years ago, so it is quite a bit different to now a days, but this still happens in some areas.
You could also relate this to "Pearls of Indifference", people knew what was going on in the concentration camps, and they didn't do anything, but the people who were doing these horrible things thought that if anybody knew, they would stop them. When the leader of an army says you have to go fight in Iraq, they automatically do it, because they were told to, and they have to.
These people who do these acts of injustice are normally just normal people, they go home and sit down for dinner with their normal family, and talk about normal things, and after they have done all of these things, they can still go to sleep at night. Its truly a sick thing, but they don't know any better. They are just doing what they were told to do. This doesn't make it a excuse though, its just a reason i guess.
In relation to "The Lottery" near the end of the story, concept of the story was every year it was a tradition to pull papers out of a black box and it would say someones name, and that person would get brutally stoned to death. "it isn't fair," she said A stone hit her on the side of the head." This case of injustice doesn't phase anyone because it is a tradition, and everyone is used to it, and everyone is capable to killing that person. Now this story was writtin a number of years ago, so it is quite a bit different to now a days, but this still happens in some areas.
You could also relate this to "Pearls of Indifference", people knew what was going on in the concentration camps, and they didn't do anything, but the people who were doing these horrible things thought that if anybody knew, they would stop them. When the leader of an army says you have to go fight in Iraq, they automatically do it, because they were told to, and they have to.
These people who do these acts of injustice are normally just normal people, they go home and sit down for dinner with their normal family, and talk about normal things, and after they have done all of these things, they can still go to sleep at night. Its truly a sick thing, but they don't know any better. They are just doing what they were told to do. This doesn't make it a excuse though, its just a reason i guess.
