Compare/Contrast Essay: The Easiest Path

Standing up for what is right may not always be the easiest path. Sometimes people care about themselves more than others. There are two stories called The Lottery and First they came. These stories really amplify the statement of standing up for what is right may not always be the easiest path. “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a short story about a town of people that come together and do a lottery. You would think that a lottery would always be true but that is a false statement. The way they play there Lottery is people will draw a slip of paper out of a box and if it has a black dot on it then that person will be stoned to death. “First They Came” by Martin Neimoller is a short story that is about our history. In the story the Nazis come and take a certain group of people and nobody stood up for them and then the Nazis came again and took another certain people and the man did not speak up. Eventually in the end the Nazis came for the man and there was no one to speak up for him. Both “The Lottery” and “First They Came” deal with standing up for what is right may not be the …show more content…
In both of the stories there bad things happened. The bad things and death could have probably been prevented if someone just spoke up. That really applies to real life too. There have been many terrible things happen on this world and many of them probably could have been prevented if somebody spoke out and wasn’t afraid to tell people what they believe in. For example in the lottery when Mr. Adams said that many other villages have stopped doing the lottery. Even though he spoke out a little he really didn’t stand by with what he said. This compares to First they came because no body spoke out. Maybe if the man in First they came and Mr. Adams in The lottery spoke out then they could have prevented