Perils of Indifference

1. Horrible events that happen while people are aware but ignorant about it.

2. The ending of 'The Lottery' is similar to a movie I recently watched, the movie's name is 'Hot Fuzz'. At the beginning of the movie the main character who is a excelled police officer, his name is St.Nicholas Engel. He lives in London, United Kingdom and is informed that he will be moving to a constable position in the small town in the country called Sandford, which has a very low crime rate. Everyone at first is very kind and the town has a quaint perfect appearance. Sandford wins the 'Perfect town' award consistently every year. Later in the movie a series of so called 'accidents' are portrayed, though all of them are actually first degree murders. The officers of the police force are dimwitted, and have no questions to these 'accidents' since the head chief is an accomplice. In Sandford the main older towns people had a cult, that the main purpose was to dispose of miscrents in an accidental theatre. St. Engel finally finds out after much suspicion that it is this cult, which even tries to murder him in the end for knowing to much information. St. Engel gets away with the help of his literally stupid friend, that happens to be the head chief's son. The towns people are convicted in the duration of the finale and sent off to prison with Engel becoming the police's head chief.

3. Elie Wiesels's speech relates to 'The Lottery' because during the Holocaust some of the German population, who were not directly involved with the dispicable deaths of the 'different' but did not do anything to stop them. In 'The Lottery' all the town peoples are friendly to one another and kind to the victim, in the end nobody tries to stop the stoning, and participates in the throwing on rocks. People's actions on other human beings are disgusting and need to be reformed for the world to be sustained for a long time.

Ignorance Is Bliss

When I read an article that touches my beliefs, hopes, thoughts, or outlooks on life I connect to it. Personally for me I am a big history buff, who also opposes Bush's views on Iraq and Afghanistan wars, so when I read a journal written by a Canadian solider in Afghanistan it may change my views slightly on that particular subject. On the other side of the scale I have read multiple articles on global warming, pollution, and the ozone layer being destroyed. Some people believe it is a load of garbage, yet some believe it is a very concrete problem. I some what agree that global warming is happening, but the biggest thing is pollution, that I will insist that we all can help. Pollution is a gastronomical and very controversial issue, that you do not really even have to read an article about you just have to look around, and ask yourself what is that huge ''overcast'' over China that never goes away? The ''overcast'' that protrudes sunlight from shining, and floats up to the North, which is Canada. Some Canadians may just say 'it is not us! It is a China or India problem', but the truth is Canadians use the most energy per capita in the whole world. At times I ask myself am I just getting sucked into the media, and believing idiotic propaganda to save the government some money, then I just think who cares after a while is is really hard to reuse a plastic bag once in a while or re-use containers? Every article that I read which affects me in any way I try to even do the littlest thing to help. I try to be a compassionate person, and volunteer or do what ever I can, but sometimes there is nothing you can do.

Do characters' need flaws?

Yes characters do need flaws to portray true beauty. People all have different views and opinions on what beauty is. When one reads a magazine and thinks wow she is beautiful or extremely attractive, they are not really sticking a name to that particular person, since the picture in the magazine has been edited to a single pixel to have it ''plastic'' perfect. In magazines they want to sell you something, either it be the magazine itself or a product. Each photo is critiqued to simplistic perfection. This is not true beauty, since you cannot find a beautiful person based on a picture in a magazine or a published article. I am not insisting that the person in the photograph is not beautiful, because the person may be. A character has to be realistic, since everyone has flaws, even if it is the smallest mark on a visible spot. Everyone is born with a special feature that may or may not be unique to them, but it is still a flaw that is marked as human.