The ending of "The Lottery" is shocking compared to how seeming normal the rest of the short story is. I could relate it to the actions of the Nazis during the Holocaust in World War II. At first, before the Holocaust was underway everything seemed normal, until they started gathering the Jews into the ghettos and after that the death camps. It was shocking how that could have happened, and unexpected.
In "The Perils of Indifference", Elie is warning everyone addressed in his letter that remaining indifferent can have serious consquences, such as during the Holocaust when outside countries knew of the existence of the death camps where thousands of Jews were being killed, yet none of them did anything about it. In "The Lottery" remaining indifferent is causing someone to be killed every single time a lottery takes place. The residents of the town are afraid of change yet all the other towns have given up the lottery, which shows one of the dangers of living in an indifferent world.
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