What Is The Difference Between Harvest Gypsie And The Lottery

If a person sees something bad going on should that person say something or take the risk at getting themselves into trouble? In the ¨Harvest Gypsies¨ by John Steinbeck and ¨The lottery” by Shirley Jackson, Their articles show how bystanders didn't say anything because they thought it was the correct thing to do or they were afraid to speak up. Bystanders are innocent: It's not their fault that they been raised to not stand up for what they believe in or why they don't know how to help out without getting themselves into trouble.

Bystanders are innocent in the ¨ Harvest Gypsies¨ ¨teachers and parents were impatient scared for one of their kids to catch a disease from one of their school mates.here was a horrible disease going on people

where suffering and dying especially the ones who lived in poverty because they didn't have enough for medication. The families that were ¨upper class¨ just watched them suffer and did not help only a few did but the reason for that they also had treat their kids and or any other family members it's not that they didn't want help it's that they couldn't they had too look out for themselves as well. ¨Dignity is all gone and spirit has turned to anger before it dies.¨ What this quote means is that dignity is owning up to your mistakes and acknowledging that you have made a mistake however in this case the change happens rapidly and people didn't know how to approach the situation but trying to survive for themselves. All this leads up is fighting for yourself because that's what's most important.

In ¨ The Lottery¨ they showed how tradition can affect the way of living your life and how the bystanders in ¨The Lottery ¨ couldn't say anything because they were afraid of speaking up and how consequences of saying something that others may disagree would affect them. Some may argue that if a person feels guilty for not helping someone in need is bad however: In the lottery they have to select one person and the person chosen from a box has to get sacrificed so that they would have a good year of corn crops who ever got chosen would get stoned to death. However it's not their choice to be in the lottery or to throw stones at someone they have grown accustomed to their tradition and go along with what they're saying and doing because they think its the correct thing to do. ¨ It's not the way it used to be says Old Man Warner.¨ At some point things weren't like they were today. There are very few people who disagree with the ¨tradition¨ but don't say anything because they're afraid of if they speak up then they'll get stoned to death as well. Nobody wants to be sacrificed its how its been going on for so long that they don't want to change.

In conclusion bystanders are innocent because sometimes it's just not knowing how to approach to the situation or being afraid to speak up because that's how not your problem and getting into can affect you and in some cases gets that person dead. Is risking your own life for someone who disagrees with you or that not knowing how to help actually worth it: Its not you come before anyone else.