Bystanders Are Not Guilty Analysis

Bystanders Are Not Guilty Change fears many people, which makes people bystanders, but change makes the world better. Change and standing up will make people’s situation in the world fadeaway. In the texts “Killers of a Dream” and “The Lottery”, people want to make change, but don’t do anything to make that change. Whether not changing or standing up for the racial prejudice in “killers of a Dream” or not standing up to stop a tradition that fears many in “The Lottery”, both texts represents people not doing anything to make change when they want change. Therefor, bystanders are not innocent in cases of civil justice because they are afraid to make a change and go against their tradition and how they live. People want to make a change around them, but they are afraid because they are afraid being harmed,

“ It is a strange thing, this umbilical cord uncut. In time of ease, we do not feel its pull, but when we are threatened with change, suddenly it draws the whole white South together in a collective fear and fury that wipe our minds clear of reason and we were block from sensible contact with the world we live in,” ( Lillian Smith). This shows that people feared change because it would bring fear to them. People should know better, but people in this text kept doing it because it was like a tradition to them. People are taught in many ways, but the way the learned was wrong because they were taught the way other people were taught a tradition they should never learn live. In the text “The Lottery”, people lived a tradition that feared most. One person each year is chosen to die by throwing stones at that person. People wanted to make change and give up their tradition, but feared to do it because it will cause a ton of chaos. Plus, they were so used to the tradition that they didn”t want to change anything that want to be change. “Next thing you know, they'll be wanting to go back to living in caves, nobody work any