Racist Beliefs Depicted In The Story 'Terrible Things'

There are many reasons that cause people do bad things: many people do not want to draw attention to themselves, often it is easier to follow the crowd, and sometimes people find themselves caught in a tradition. Citizens accept and support racist beliefs and treatment of others because everyone else does.

The main idea of the story "Terrible Things" is that when something happens many people do not want to draw attention to themselves. In the story, the Terrible Things wanted a creature with feathers. Every animal said that it was not them so they were not taken. the Terrible Things continued to come back and receive more animals. The remaining animals continued to say that they didn't have the feature the Terrible things wanted.