Maslow's Hierarchy for "The Night Trilogy"

    In "The Night Trilogy" Maslow’s hierarchy is shown throughout the book. For example when the Jews where verbally assaulted they lost their self-esteem. They were brought out into the streets and humiliated in front of their friends and family. There was nothing they could do about it either. When they lost that, they couldn’t go on to self-actualization without regaining their self-esteem.  Then when the Jews were taken from their homes and put into ghettos they also had their safety taken from them. They had to fight to get food and keep their families safe from people who started to rob other families, families that they knew for years. Since that was taken away from them, they focused more on getting themselves to safety rather than working and trying to build up their self-esteem and self-actualization, along with belonging. No one was there to give them love and affection. They were left on their own. After some time, the Nazi soldiers took away the Jews’ physiological part in the pyramid. With this gone the Jews lacked good health, filing food, and proper sleep. Now that these things were gone they had nothing to work on, everything was taken from them. Before they could even feel better about themselves, they needed to regain their physiology and safety, which would take a lot of effort to rebuild after it was all taken away.  

    A real world example would be when you have children who get severely abused. They often lack the trait in Maslow’s hierarchy. When there are verbally hurt they lost their Esteem and self-actualization. Since their parents were abusing them I doubt they felt like they belonged in the house they were in. Then with all the physical abuse the child didn’t feel safe either. Lastly, the parent(s) could’ve starved their child, so then the physiological aspect was taken away also.  

Big Question for All The Pretty Horses

    My big question for, "All The Pretty Horses" is, should you be blamed for a friends mistake? In the book, two men Rawlins and Grady, are accompanied by a stranger they meet on their way to Mexico, Blevins. On the way to find work Blevins looses his horse and later finds it in a small town. The three men plan to take the horse back at night fall. They successfully get the horse but Blevins is separated from the other two men. Months go by and Rawlins and Grady are taken in the middle of the night and put in jail. Later they meet up with Blevins in a cell. As it turns out Blevins killed a guy and the police also thought he stole the horse. Blevins ends up getting shot and the other two are thrown in jail. While they're there the two men are forced to fight and try to survive. Grady is forced to kill a man who was sent to kill him.
    All these things boil back down to Blevins killing that man. That was his mistake, not John Grady's and Rawlins. They weren't part of the crime that Blevins committed. John Grady will never forget all the things that happened to him in those months and will be reminded of it everyday when he looks in the mirror. 

Allegory Sneetches

    The Sneetches it starts with the stared bellied sneetches think they are better than everyone else just because they have the stars on their bellies. The sneetches without stars on their bellies feel left out and sad because the other sneetches won't include them in their activities. One day a man comes to the beach and tells the sneetches he can put a star on their belly but it will cost them money. So they all got the stars but when they did that, the other sneetches wanted theirs removed and it cost them more money then it did when they got them added. They went back and forth getting them added and removed until the man left and took their money. Then they realized that it didn't matter it they had stars or not. This relates to actual life because it tells how people will do anything to fit in, no matter the cost. The moral lesson is that it doesn't matter what you look like or how you dress, all that matters is that you like a person for who they are, not what they have.