Comparing The Lottery 'And First They Came'

Many people have their own ideas and do things differently and that isn’t a bad thing, but when a leader or figure does something people don’t agree with but they still do it, that is when things can get bad. The “Lottery” is about these people having a lottery that families draw a slip of paper from a box, the person who draws the slip with a black dot family draws, the person who gets the slip again dies. The poem “First They Came” is about a man named Martian who escaped Nazi concentration camps. He didn’t speak up for the people taken by the Nazi’s, he regretted it after words. Both “the Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “First They Came” by Martian deals with how blindly following a crowd can have disastrous consequences. To begin with the “ The Lottery” is about blindly following a crowd. It is told in a short story by Shirley Jackson, wrote in 3rd person limited. They have a lottery each year as you can infer in paragraph 5. The three reasons/evidence you can tell the villagers blindly follow the crowd; The people seem to be friends but still comet murder as seen in paragraph 2,3, and 79, old man

This piece of writing is a poem and paragraph, wrote in 1st person. This story is about the Nazi’s taking people from their houses. In the poem there is a picture that is a furnace from burning people. This shows that the group of Nazi’s built complexes or camps to torture or kill people, this represents that if enough people followed something they could achieve it. In the poem the speaker talks about how he didn’t speak out for the people being taken. Martian was following the Nazi’s because, he didn’t speak out or do anything about it, which is another piece of evidence that supports the theme. Lastly, in the paragraph the Martian says he used to support Hitler, this says he followed the crowd for safety or his