maslow's hierarchy

As prisoners in the death camps in Auschwitz Elie and his father go through and see horrible things. Their health is in danger due to lack of proper food and very little sleep. They are marched and work for long hours under constant danger of sickness, being hurt or killed. They do feel a sense of belonging in their shared misery. Being together is better than going through it alone. In the beginning when they feel strong their esteem is good. As they see and experience the cruelties and horrors of the march and the death camps their spirits and energy to survive are challenged.Their love and concern for each other and those they become close to urges them to keep fighting to survive. As Elie sees how desperate people get to survive he realizes how ugly people can become when they are scared and hungry. They were turning on each other, killing and stealing to live. Like animals. They were losing their faith and humanity. In real life when you are well taken care of and feel loved you are easier to be around. Anyone will fight if frightened or threatened. When something or someone means something to us we would do almost anything. Elie pleads with his father to hang on, to go on living. On the evening of January 28, 1945 they are both alive when they go to sleep. In the morning Elie awakens to find his father gone. Dead. "I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!..." Elie was at his lowest point of faith. Everyone has a bottom.

Hunger Games Big Question

For my choice novel for the unit is "The Hunger Games". My big question which relates to not only the novel but to life, it makes you stop and think and try to relate to everyone. Is love worth your life? I believe that it is an appropriate question that represents this story to the fullest. Katniss at the very start didn't know much bout Peeta, they never really talked much before the tribute but after they started to, Peeta wasn't as tough as people would hope a tribute for there district would be but he did have the heart for it, and with a bonus of Katniss was tough and bold and helped a little bit along the way. They said at the show before the games just started that Peeta likes her. They would go through the whole game with that thought, but you didn't really see the true love until Peeta helped Katniss and after Peeta was injured badly, he hid and waited for his death to come but Katniss stayed by his side all the way through. True love isn't shown until the biggest moment of a type of dramatic experience. It also relates to life, is love worth your life? people say love is an unbreakable bond or big emotion, but is your life it, if the person or thing you love, to give up your life? people with jobs do this all the time, they have to set everything aside to better there life style.

Allegory

What makes the sneetches allegorical? Well I believe that The sneeches story is a great example of an Allegory. It does have a life lesson or meaning to it at the end. The sneeches with the stars believe they are more superior than the blank belly stars due to it was taught. The blank belly stars that are different, are discriminated or such dis involved and kept out of the loop. The blank belly sneeches are wanting to be equal, so this guy comes to the beach and has a machine to make them have stars upon there belly's with a price of money, so they gets stars upon there belly, but the already original sneeches that had stars didn't appreciate the change, the same guy that had the machine to put stars on belly's, now created a machine for star removal, and so the original star belly sneeches went into that machine, this guy made a lot of money off of it, but the sneeches star belly's or not went back and forth and at the end when everyone ran out of money, they learned that no matter if you have a star or not on your belly, your still all alike and everyone should be equal. That's the life lesson, and it is for that example a Allegory.

Bleachers

The main protagonist in the book "Bleachers"by John Grisham is Neely Crenshaw. He comes back to his home town of Messina after fifteen years. He comes back because of one cause, his former high school football coach Eddie Rake was on his death bed in some short time to pass away due to cancer. He comes back and runs into former friends, players and people he never even known before, but in the little town of Messina everyone knows everyone even if they were in the past or the current times. Neely has been know as the All-American Quarterback that has one of thee best arms in history of Messina. So good that his high school football number, number nineteen was retired in honor. Neely Crenshaw is known for his amazing proformence in the state championship game of  '87. He threw four interceptions and fumbled two times in the first half. But some mystery which has been burried sense the game and never been told happened at halftime. They come out and pull off an amazing and nearly impossible comeback to win the game as Neely turned back into his amazing talented self and dominated the second half. Neely Crenshaw left Messina as a hero and choose to go to Texas Tech and starting his bright career there. But during the National Championship game, Neely stepped up in the pocket and choose to run and was token out at the knee and tore his ACL and ended his football career. Which is still bitter to him to this day. But he comes back and ravels the mystery that happened at halftime. They went into the locker room at halftime and Neely was attacked by his head coach and Neely punched his coach in the face and broke his hand. Then the team had Neely's back and kicked the coaches out of the locker room. My questions to this book have been later on answered such as what happened at halftime and why Neely was so bitter sometimes.