Both “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “First They Came” by Martin Niemoller deals with speaking out and tragic death. In “The Lottery,” Mr. Summers conducted the lottery this year. Over the years, the black box is passed on. Each year, one person gets stoned to death. In “The Lottery,” death comes by lottery and while the people are not like killing a person that they care for, but it is a tradition. In “First They Came”, the main character does not seem to care about others who have died until he is faced with death. Both of these stories make one think of death and caring for others, but “The Lottery” does a better job of explaining why we should care for each other.
In “The Lottery,” the town’s people are sad that someone dies each year. Tessie Hutchinson screamed “It isn’t fair, it isn’t right” and then they were upon her. They cared for each other …show more content…
All he cared about was himself. The consequences from not caring is death. Maybe if he cared about the socialist, trade unionists, and the Jews, then maybe he would have not ended up dying. At the end of the poem he says, “Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.” The people wanted him to speak out but he didn’t. There is no winning because everyone dies.
In these stories, it shows what the consequence was if you don’t speak up and do what is the right thing, there would be a consequence. If you do not stand up, there would be consequences, but if you stand up for yourself and one another there would not be consequences. In “The Lottery” shows why you should not blindly follow the tradition because that may put you in a life threatening risk of dying.
In conclusion, I like the story, “First They Came,” but I think “The Lottery,” in my opinion is a better story because it shows more of caring than “First They Came,” that is mostly about not caring for others and he ends up dying at the
In “The Lottery,” the town’s people are sad that someone dies each year. Tessie Hutchinson screamed “It isn’t fair, it isn’t right” and then they were upon her. They cared for each other …show more content…
All he cared about was himself. The consequences from not caring is death. Maybe if he cared about the socialist, trade unionists, and the Jews, then maybe he would have not ended up dying. At the end of the poem he says, “Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.” The people wanted him to speak out but he didn’t. There is no winning because everyone dies.
In these stories, it shows what the consequence was if you don’t speak up and do what is the right thing, there would be a consequence. If you do not stand up, there would be consequences, but if you stand up for yourself and one another there would not be consequences. In “The Lottery” shows why you should not blindly follow the tradition because that may put you in a life threatening risk of dying.
In conclusion, I like the story, “First They Came,” but I think “The Lottery,” in my opinion is a better story because it shows more of caring than “First They Came,” that is mostly about not caring for others and he ends up dying at the