Martin Luther King Jr. once said “In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends”. In the texts “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and Elie Wiesel's acceptance speech, they both have bystanders that do not help out when it came to harming humans. People just stand around watching others get hurt and that's why no one believes in good people, that leads me to say bystanders are not innocent.
In “The Lottery” people gather around every year to watch or join in on stoning people to death which is why none of them are innocent. “... as the villagers moved in on her. “It isn't fair,” she said. A stone hit the side of her head” (Jackson 77). In this quote people are brutally murdering someone with stones and
In “The Lottery” people gather around every year to watch or join in on stoning people to death which is why none of them are innocent. “... as the villagers moved in on her. “It isn't fair,” she said. A stone hit the side of her head” (Jackson 77). In this quote people are brutally murdering someone with stones and