Equiano Essential Question

Can a person treat another person with the harsh cruelty shown in this story if they consider them to be their equal?

Life of Pi - Real Life Relation

A real life relation to the book, Life of Pi, is the television show LOST. Both of them seem to be about survival stories in general but whenever you read or watch the stories it becomes much deeper. Although one focuses on philosiphy and the other on the mysterious island, both have many similarities. One such similarity is that both main protagonists are torn between thier reason and thier faith, and they both eventually choose reason to keep themselves alive, but later wonder if they made the right choice.

The Jungle - Current Event

A current event I related to The Jungle is the rise of chemical products in food and genetically engineered vegetables. The food in The Jungle was dirty and often made from tainted meat. Well today we have preservatives that are put into foods that may be harmful to our health. both of these have caused tremendous uproars in the media and have (had) some solutions like buying more expensive or organic foods.

Life of Pi - First Thoughts

This book truly surprised me and should be considered an instant classic. When I first picked it up I dreaded reading it, because I thought it would be another survival story filled with gruesome images and sad deaths and an eventual rescue. What I found however, was a book packed with philosiphy and clever insights on religeon. It combined these thoughts with a solid story about tigers, some survival, and zookeeping. It made for an astounding read that broadened my world view. A five out of five.

The Jungle - first thoughts

My first thoughts for the book The Jungle by Upton sinclair were that this book was a well written piece of work that accomplished what it had set out to do. It brought attention to the meat packing process and the poor conditions the workers labored in, and it promoted Socialism. Howerver, I'm not sure if this book should be called a classic, I think the book was written only to stir attention and not intended to become a literary "masterpiece". The books main character Jurgis' (pronounced your-gis) life kept goiung from bad to worse and when there was improvement, Jurgis' luck somehow always got even worse in the end, but when he discovered Socialism everything somehow went right. This is surely a grand coincidence and one of the reasons I think the book is an OK read but not quite up there with the big-time classics.