The Lottery And First They Came Essay

If you stand up for someone or for yourself, you are getting yourself involved which means you are becoming a part of the situation. Just like Tessie from “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and Martin in “First They Came” by Martin Niemoller. In the short story “The Lottery” Tessie spoke up for what was “right”. Her husband or head of the family drew the first card with a black dot on it, and Tessie was upset about this drawing and called out to Mr. Summers, saying that it wasn’t fair and that he didn’t give her husband enough time to pick the card he wanted. She did all of this because she was afraid of picking the next card for her family and her being the one to get “stoned” (killed by villagers throwing rocks at her). Then again “standing up for what’s right may not be the easiest path” as shown here she went up and picked with her family and of course she got the card with the black dot on it and when she was backing up into the corner with the rocks and pebbles she was saying the same thing like “it’s not fair he didn’t have enough time to pick the one he wanted this is not right” then the villagers were upon her.

Just like Tessie when she spoke up in front of all of her friends and family, thinking that that was the right thing to do at the time. She thought that standing up for her husband and herself, was the right thing. Also Martin, he didn’t speak up because he thought it was the right thing to do because he thought that since other people were speaking out for him that he shouldn’t speak out and obviously that wasn’t the easiest path because he was the last person to get persecuted by the Nazi’s. In summary the moral of the short story and the poem is that standing up for what’s right may not be the easiest path, and that speaking out for yourself or having others speak out for you because you think it is the right thing to do really