Thursday, October 16, 2008

You really can compare Twilight to anything.

1.) The jeopardy of lack of interest.

2.) In the story "The Lottery" it appears to be an average community with friendly neighbours. Later, you discover that the village of people has an annual tradition to kill a member of their town. What seemed to be normal families gathering for, our happy interpretation of a lottery. Turns into the brutal stoning of one of their loved ones. As in the novel "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer. The Volturi the leaders of the vampire society, has tradition to kill any human who comes in contact with them. In this story the Cullen family separates themselves from the traditional vampire ways to massacre anyone in the human race to feed on. The Volturi feel no remorse to take the lives of anyone, they think of it as completely normal to kill innocent bystanders just to quench their thirst. As do every other vampire in the world they just accept the fact that they kill humans for blood and find nothing wrong with it. Much like "The Lottery" where they find it completely acceptable to kill whoever draws the black dot.

3.) In "The Perils of Indifference" Elie Wiesel tells his story how he survived Auschwitz. The way Auschwitz run is actually quite similar to the community of "The Lottery". Well, only not as drastic. A majority of the Nazi's killing the Jewish didn't know what they are doing. They had just been brought up and brainwashed to do these things without even thinking twice about it. Just like in "The Lottery" everyone is brought up knowing one tradition to kill one person every year. Both of these situations being incredibly morally wrong, without knowing more in life then just your tradition can lead to terrible things such as these.

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