Following the crowd can have disastrous consequences this means if someone follow the crowd they might end up doing something they really do not want to do. In the short story “The Lottery” (By Shirley Jackson) they have a lottery and when someone wins they get stoned to death by their village, even their family has to throw rocks at them! Unfortunately when Tessie Hutchinson is picked her family has to throw rocks at her. One of her friends throws the biggest one she could barely hold it. In the poem “First They Came” (By Martin Neimoller) he talks about how he used to be a supporter of Hitler then grew to oppose the Nazis. He says first they came for… then he says he did not speak up. Then when they came for him there was no one left
