Both “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “First They Came” by Martin Niemoller have a theme of following the crowd can have disastrous consequences, but they do it in different ways. The short story “The Lottery” is a story about a small village on a nice and sunny day. Once every year they hold a lottery by drawing names out of a black box. Whoever “wins” the lottery is then stoned to death. In the poem “First They Came” the author speaks about his own experiences in concentration camps. He says
something both first they came by Martin Niemoller and The lottery by Shirley Jackson have in common. But for different reasons. Both stories are different but are also the same. Both stories share the same theme but for different reasons. So these two stories have a lot in common but somethings that are different, so in this essay I will talk about how they are the same and also different. Some ways that The Lottery and First they came are the same is that they both share the same theme. For example
"The Lottery” and "First They came” Never blindly follow traditions because something really bad can happen, like punishment. In “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is about a lottery that villagers commit once a year and they pick a card out of a box and if they draw a black dot they have to draw again band if they get the dot twice they get the "reward". The “First they came” by Martin Niemoller is about this guy who doesn’t stand up for others but when the guy came for him and he had no one to stand
If everyone else was doing something, would you? Or maybe if someone needed to be stood up for, would you have their back? In The Lottery, people do follow other people blindly. And the consequences are devastating. But in First They Came, not having someone’s back might get you in the same position… The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is a story that takes place in a small village on a warm summer day. Little boy’s run around in boisterous play, collecting small stones into a pile. As the adults gather
injustice, or following the crowd. This is also known as peer pressure. “The Lottery,” written by Shirley Jackson, is a fictional short story about a lottery that takes place in a village every summer. First, every family has a representative that draws a slip of paper, then every member of the winning family draws, and however gets a black dot on their paper “wins,” which means that person gets stoned to death. Then, “First They Came,” by Martin Niemoller, a man who wrote about his perspective on justice
“The lottery” and “First they came” Standing up for what’s right may not be the easiest path. This is not easy because you may not want someone you know to get in trouble for something they have done. “The Lottery by Shirley Jackson” is about a village that has a lottery and the of this lottery gets stoned to death witch is not the right thing. “First They Came by Martin Niemoller” is about a man who was once a Nazis and was regretful for not standing up for what is right. Both “The Lottery by Shirley
The theme of the 2 story’s The Lottery by Shirly Jaxson and First they came … by Martin Niemoller is it is dangerous to follow blindly . The lottery is a story were everyone still does this tradition that basically gets people killed if they “win” then the towns people throw rocks at the people who “won” . They first came is a poem and it is about how the Nazis come for all of these different people and he did not stand up then they came for him and no one else was there to help him so basically
start, the theme I chose for these two articles that we will be comparing and contrasting is standing up for what is right may not be the easiest path. This means that when you are thinking about standing up for someone and no one else starts to, it may be hard for you to start standing up for someone. In “The Lottery” Tessie Hutchinson and her family live in a town that do this thing called the lottery, but you don’t win any money during this “lottery”, you get the prize of death. In “First They Came…”
on it. This short story explains how you need to live for today, because you don’t always know what is going to happen tomorrow. Narrative elements in “The Lottery” that contribute to the theme are setting, symbolism, and characters. One of the elements that contributes to the theme of “The Lottery” is the setting. According to “The Lottery” ”The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green
“The Lottery” made by Shirley Jackson is about a small community of villagers that gather together every year to perform a tradition. All of the villagers gather together and draw small slips of paper from a black wooden box, whoever draws the first slip with the black dot on it, their family has to draw first. Now all of the members of that certain family draw again, and whoever gets the black dot in that certain family must get stoned to death. The next story is called “First They Came” made and