Maslow’s hierarchy work

I havent started my book yet. But i chose to read the night trilogy. My book is about the holocaust and should include all of Maslow's hierachy. In real life, i've experienced all of Maslow's hierarchy. I've experienced belonging. Where you feel loved, and where you feel apart of something special. My friends and family make me feel like that everyday. My family also helps me feel safety, like they're protecting me from all danger.

What drives humans to suicide?

The book i read was The Bell Jar. My big question is what drives humans to suicide. This book is about a girl who is depressed with her life. There are a great number of things that drive people to suicide. Theres pressure to society to be the certian image they think is best, like being a size 0. There's stress with many important things you have to worry about in your life, like maybe your job, money, family ect. In the bell jar, she was just overall depressed about her life. She was living on an all paid internship in New York, and she still wasent happy which isnt right, any girl would kill to be in her shoes. She didn't really have any reason to be depressed, sometimes you don't really need a reason to be sad. When you have depression, there's a certian chemical in the brain that doesent function right. Esther tried killing herself because she wasent happy with how her life was going, and she just wanted to end it all. She thought she was going to be alone for the rest of her life and never find love. Esther tried drowning herself, cutting herself and took a lot of pills which made her overdose, after trying to kill herself she had to stay at a mental institution. I think the pressure of life drives humans to suicide. Some people just can't take all of the responsibilities they have to worry about, and it overwelms them to the point where they just can't take it anymore.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Imagination was one of the romantic characteristics in the poem, aswell as intuition. The main theme of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is respect of nature

Sneeches!

In the story The Sneeches by Dr. Seuss, the sneeches represent the different kinds/ethnicities of people or insecure people. The salesman with all the machines represented the leader or dictator that made everything worse, kind of like a Hitler of the story. The sneeches with the stars on their bellies thought they were better than the sneeches with the bare bellies and wouldn’t even talk to them. No matter what the bare bellied sneeches did, they weren’t accepted with the other star sneeches and were still discriminated against. The star sneeches removed their stars because the other bare sneeches got stars on their bellies so they could be treated equal. This went on back and forth through the whole story, but in the end of the story the sneeches realized that they were all equal, and that they shouldn’t hate each other because of their appearance. They realized star or not, they are all the same and not one person is better than the other. The overall message of this story is that we are all equal and no one is better than the other. And that we should all get along and love each other for who we are as individuals.

First Lit Circle Group Discussion

In my literature circle group, we didn't really talk about much since we litterely just started the book. We kind of just talked about the beginning of the book and what had happend, and we also shared a few of our vocabulary words with each other. That's about it.

Interview with a vampire

I decided to read the book Interview With A Vampire by Anne Rice. The book begins in a small room in san francisco with the intervier meeting the vampire and the vampire is just beginning the story of his life. He starts off talking about his life before he was a vampire, when he was a human. He also talks about his brother and about how he died. His brother fell down some stairs, but he doesent know how or why it had happend. He was grieving the loss of his brother, and said that's what triggered all the drinking he's been doing.

Before I Fall

The book that i'm reading right now is called Before i Fall by Lauren Oliver. It's about a teenaged girl named Samantha Kingston who strives to be popular and has an overall perfect life. Sam's got good looks, she's got three amazing friends, and a really popular, handsome boyfriend. At this point of the book all that's really happening is she's explaining her life. She's talking about her three bestfriends and their personalitys, her boyfriend, the problems she has with her family and just her life in general.

March 21, 2012

The protaginist in the novel i'm reading is a teenaged girl named Samantha Kingston. The question i have about this book right now is where are her parents? Through the whole book, she's gonig around doing all this crazy stuff, and her parents don't call or try to get a hold of her once. Arnt they worried about her? i mean i would be if my daughter was gone for days and not letting me know if shes okay, or even still alive. My other question is why does sam think being popular is so important? and how does she even know she's popular? not a lot of kids like her at school they think she's stuck up and mean, and the last time i checked popular means when a lot of people like you and want to be your friend.

Theme!

There are so many themes in the book i'm reading. There's tangled relationships, the importance of family, the pressure of being popular and overall letting go. Samantha Kingston is slowly loosing the people she loves in a secret shes trying to figure out. Sam thinks she loves her boyfriend, but is slowly falling in love with a strange boy named Kent, that shes known since she was a little girl. The relationship with her family isnt the greatest either. In one point of the book, Samantha says, “I hate both of my parents right now…for letting the thread between us stretch so far and so thin that the moment it was severed for good they didn’t even feel it.” that doesent sound too good to me. This book keeps you on your feet, something is always happening.