Maslow’s Hierarchy

Maslow's Hierarchy works against the characters in the book I'm reading " The Night Triology" because of how the Jews are slowly stripped of their needs to succeed in life. First the published numerous racial slurs in the newspapers on a daily basis degrading the Jews and making them feel lower then ever one else. The felt that the weren't part of the German culture or any culture by the way and felt that other peoples love and affection didn't exist between them. Next, the Jews were removed from their homes and placed into ghettos where they had to scavenge for food and water. By doing this, this placed the Jews into closer danger, but the could do nothing about it. Slowly, the Nazi's and other hatred people starved, and made the Jews walk miles to the train tracks to be shipped off to concentration camps to be executed or work for very long hours. Elie is a young boy in Hungary when this is all happening and him and his family must go through the grueling pains. What I just explained is a great example of a real life situation of Maslow's Hierarchy in effect.

Sneetches Allegorical

A "fix-it-up chappie" named Sylvester McMonkey McBean appears and offers the Sneetches without stars the chance to have them with his Star-On machine, for three dollars. This treatment is instantly popular among the non- starred upsets the original star-bellied Sneetches because they are afraid that they are going to lose their special status. McBean then tells them about his Star-Off machine, costing ten dollars, and the Sneetches who originally had stars happily pay the money to have them removed in order to remain special. McBean allows the recently starred Sneetches through this machine as well. This escalates in chaos, with the Sneetches running from one machine to the next. This continues until the Sneetches are without any money and McBean leaves as a really a rich man. The Sneetches learn from this experience that neither plain-belly nor star-belly Sneetches are superior, and they are able to get along and become friends. I believe that this short story is a very good example of discrimination between races and cultures. This shows real life racism, political divisions, class divides and one cannot fail to think that if everyone was forced to read The Sneetches the world would contain rather less injustice.