Gathering Blue Essay Topics

When you start to build yourself as a person you will start to feel accomplished and important. In 1943 Abraham Maslow made a hierarchy of needs, a hierarchy of needs is a description of what motivates humans to make the decisions they do. Gathering blue is a book written by Lois Lowry, she makes a story based of a oppressed society with the main Character being Kira.With reference to Kira from Gathering Blue, she can be matched to Maslow’s Hierarchy.

Kira is a two syllable girl, both her parents are dead and she has a broken leg. After she comes back from her mother at the field her hut is burned and her garden is mostly destroyed. Worried about her future Kira plans to rebuild her hut and improve her garden. This is the start

of Kira’s Physiological needs. In consequence of these circumstances Kira is placed at the bottom of Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs. Next is safety, for Kira to feel safe she needs a home some friends and to feel healthy. However, a evil lady Vandara has other plans to use Kira's land for something else. Therefore she must go to the Council of Guardians for a trial verses Vandara. If she loses the trial she must go to the field(die), but she wins and gets to stay at the Council of Edifice where there is luxury.

Kira, impressed with her new home, now begins to make friendships and feel likes she belongs there since she is the new Threader.

Looked up open by a little boy named Matt, Kira starts to form a better relationship with him but also recently met a boy her age named Thomas. Thomas and Kira have very similar pasts. After Matt, Kira, and Thomas start hanging out more they get to know each other and there is no longer a awkward ambiance when they are all together. Kira is now finished the third level love and belonging. Therefore Kira moves on to the fourth level of Maslow's Hierarchy, self esteem. Kira begins to feel important. With her job as fixing a robe she is very confident and believes she is a very good threader. Even Jamison said this is where the future is and she feels a sense of responsibility. Because of all this Kira is happy and plans to be the Treader of the future. Even though she feels she is accomplished she also begins to be respected by others. The room service and other people are always willing to help and are really kind to Kira. Even the stubborn little boy matt obeys what she says. When Kira tells him he can't have the gift he gives back right away and says sorry. Now Kira needs to self actualize

herself.
Self actualization is the realization or fulfillment of one's talents and potentialities. Kira realizes how talented she is with her amazing threding skills. She keeps getting better and better. Everyone that sees her work compliments it and says something kind. Kira also does not have is any questions and accepts some sad facts. Hard to do at young age Kira starts easily solves her own problems. Kira's father finds her at the end of the book and turns out he never died. However Kira's dad leaves shortly after and Kira is ok with that sucks it up and moves on. This proves Kira has self actualized herself and Kira is very proud of herself.

This amazingly wrote book by Lois Lowry really shows how Kira climbs the hierarchy of needs. Maslow's hierarchy of needs shows how humans grow to better themselves as people. This shows how Kira became a better person and she began feel important and accomplished. All in all Kira is an excellent example of how to climb Maslow's hierarchy of needs.