Without A Map By: Meredith Hall

         "Time for classes, children, she says, and we make our way to block class. I think of that one word for the rest of the day:Children. it confuses me. I certainly am no longer a child. I go to sleep feeling like an impostor hiding among good and unsuspectin people, a girl who has given away a child secreting herself among children.' (36, Hall)
         
           I am reading Without A Map  a memoir by Meredith Hall. In the book Meredith gets pregnant at sixteen and it changes her whole life. Her mom tells her she can't live with her any longer so she goes and lives with her father but he dosn't really want anything to do with her. Meredith tries to make it through life and tries to convince her parents that she can keep her baby but they make her give it up for adoption. this makesher feel really sad because she has grown to love the child growing in her but she cant keep it. As she grows up she has to pretty much live on her own and has no help from her parents.

          I choose this quote because it really made me think of Merediths situation and make me think. It really shows how Meredith feels and how she has felt she has grown up alot because of what she has gone through. Here you can see that she no longer sees herself as a child because she as already given birth to her child and had to give it up for adoption. While she was going through this she had to do things all on her on. she had through the struggles and hoplessness all on her on and didn't have anyone to talk to. I think this quote really shows how she has grown up and how her life has changed and how she dosn't feel like a kid anymore. It shows that she feels uncomfortale being called a child. I think that her having to deal with going through life on her own has taught her alot about how hard life is.

What makes an individual powerful?
             Well let's see, I think a person is considerd powerful if they go after things they want and are good at leading people without things being caotic. For example i am powerful becuase i wanted power and the only way to get it was to kill Duncan. I put alot of work into figuring out a plan and trying to persude Macbeth into the killing because i knew he also wanted power. See where it got us. We both really wanted something and tried to get to our goal and now we are full of power. Macbeth kept saying no we can't get away with this but i told him that to get what you want you have to try and try and never give up. I told him if you want power and to be king yo have to not give up and go along with my plan to kill him. Also what makes an individal powerful is if they are a good leader. I my self feel i am a good leader. I persuaded Macbethn into killing Duncan and came up with the plan and see we didn't even get caught. I made sure everything went as planned and i truly feel that makes me powerful. If people don't try or are not a good leader then i believe they will never be powerful. I think that if Macbeth didn't have me then he wouldn't have the power he has. I had to push him into getting what he wanted and now he isn't afriad to push for things to get what he wants. See i made him powerful.
            I feel bad for people who don't go after things they want because that is truly what makes a person powerful. If people don't know how to control others to then then will never be able to have alot of power. In my opinion i think that Duncan wasn't really a powerful man even though he was king. he was nice but wasn't really in control and we were able to sneak by his guards and get what we want and thats makes me and Macbeth the powerful ones. In conclusin an indivdual is considered powerful if they can go after things they want and can be in charge and be a good learder.   -Lady Macbeth

Macbeth says he wants to go out for another killing. Sounds like fun to me just hope we don't get caught! -Lady Macbeth