Lit Circle

Our lit circle brought up some pretty good points. We discussed how we related to the book and our questions. Our drawings were interesting and brought up some discussion. One thing that was interesting to me was how this book reminded me of one I had read in 5th grade by Gary Paulsen, Hatchet. This book talked about a boy who was stranded in the woods because of an airplane crash, and had to find his way to survive. It shows all the ways he had to provide shelter and food, and how to live. The difference is in my book, Touching Spirit Bear, Cole is not appreciative of how the people have already provided for him whereas the kid in Hatchet would have been very thankful to be provided for. He found himself in this time and was very thankful for life, where Cole doesn't seem thankful for anything he's been given and hopefully he will find himself in this time.

Cutting, drugs, alcohol, abuse, not eating enough or eating too much, happen all over the world. In Cut, Patricia McCormick talks about all of these problems and goes into the story behind getting help.
Cut begins with a girl who decides to cut herself to see what the pain would feel like and soon how it wasn’t just pain anymore. It became a habit to make everything happening in her life go away. This is how Callie soon began dealing with her problems; she would react by doing harm to herself. Soon her parents realize she has a problem and needed to get her help by taking her to a rehabilitation center where everybody there had different kinds of problems. Callie sat quietly and refused to get help, sometimes people just don’t want to be helped which made things worse for her.
Things in this world shouldn’t be so difficult that people have to bring pain upon themselves to deal with it. There are rehab centers all over the world that you see celebrities and famous people going to all the time for problems like these. This is what kids and even adults look up to and it shouldn’t be that way. They aren’t being good role models by getting high or drunk or causing harm to themselves.