Do you think the message in Maugham's story is the same as or different from the message in the Aesop fable of the ant and the grasshopper? Explain.

I think that in Maugham's story is different from the message in the Aesop fable because in story of the Fable is trying to explain how important is to work and care about the future. Both characters are different point of view their own life so they are an example of what you can get or where you can be if you work hard for your future. Sometimes, we can enjoy our life doing anything that we like but we always need to think about the future. If somebody wants to have a good future, you need to work hard to obtain good results. However, in the story of the Maugham the Grasshopper ending in good conditions without work hard because of a stroke of luck and the ant never forgave the grasshopper because he was selfish at the end of the story. Even though the ant worked so hard, he didn't get the same results that the grasshopper ending with.

Questions 1-6 p62

     1. The social critics expect people to be dissatisfied with their friendships because of the high mobility so they do not have time to make friends.  

     2. The five qualities are loyalty, the ability to keep confidences,warmth,affection and supportiveness.
     3. The two most important reasons given for ending a friendship are feeling betrayed by a friend, and discovering that a friend had very different views on issues. Feeling betrayed by a friend makes more sense to me.
    4. The three most characteristic activities among friends in this survey are have an intimate talk, helping out a friend and turning to a friend for help. 
    5. Sharing your feeling with friends and the right to ask for help from friends.
Presenting Question #6

• Vicky and Jennifer

• What limits do the respondents put on friendship?Can you be good friends with someone and say no to him or her?

• The limits that the respondents put on friendship is no helping a friend to not commit a suicide. In our experience, viky and I think that if we have a good friend, we are going to say no if we think him or her is doing something wrong or bad.

2. What ended her new happiness?

What ended Esther happiness is her overhearing the conversation between Lawrence and Father Paul that Lawrence was going to up marrying Ida McIntosh, the Hudson’s Bay factor’s daughter. Father Paul convinced and explained to his nephew that he could not marry her because of her red skin and she is a pagan Indian, also due to the fact of the significant difference between both cultures.  Even though Father Paul knew that Esther was a good woman he couldn’t accept this union between the missionary’s nephew and a pagan Indian.

                After, Esther heard the whole conversation she became heart broken and started to think with repulsive anger and hatred towards Lawrence, Father Paul and the future engagement. She didn’t want the man she loved to be married to another woman, so as she tried to leave the house silently she found Lawrence sleeping on the couch as she looked upon him with such love. Thought’s of him marrying this other women angered her with such agony and then she began to think about killing him because if she couldn’t have him no one can. In her anger she pulled out a flint arrow that had snake venom on the arrows tip, she scratched Lawrence’s wrist twice and as he stirred she left the house silently. However, nobody could find who was responsible for Lawrence’s death even though she was suspected.

Esther’s happiness ended because she couldn’t handle the idea of being without her soul mate. As a result she ended killing the love of her life.

How accurate is the author's description of your birth order?:

   According to the article " How your Birth Order Influences your Life Adjustment" by Lucile K. Forer explains about how the birth order plays an important role in your life. Children take a determine place in the family group and this place is developed by older, middle, youngest and only child. In my family, there was 3 children and I used to be the youngest child for 15 years. After that time, I became the middle child which was a huge change and an impact in my life.

   In the beginning, being as the youngest child was a interesting part of my life because I always had the attention of my parents and my older siblings. I identify my self when Forer says about youngest child that "the youngest child tends to think, I am less able to do many things than other people" because I used to think like that due to the protection and help of my siblings gave to me, but after I became the middle child my concept of that totally changed. 

   In the part of "Relationship with parents", it explains about how the first child struggles to be parental and how parents change as a more relaxed with the others children. I definitely agree with this part of the article because my older sister always have to take care of us when my mom had to go to work. I always see her as my mother and my adviser. In other hand, my mother was so strict with my sister and she never permitted my sister to go out with her friends but as the time passed my mother changed and she became in certain point more relaxed and less tense with us. In addition, after my mom changed I enjoy many advantages than my older sister couldn't have. 

In conclusion, this article was really interesting for me and I agree with some of the points that it explains.I addition it accurate in my life. Being the older, middle of youngest child is not a easy role in the family and the birth order can affect our life. 

Birth Order: In the Middle

There are four children in my family. The first child of my family is my sister Andrea and she is independent, generous and parental to her sisters and brother. The second child and the only man in the family is my brother Wilmer. He is smart, carefree and creative. The next child is me and I used to be the youngest child but after 15 years my mom decided to have another member to our family. I identify my self as a fast learner, responsible and capable. The last children is my sister Gabriela she is so spoiled, annoying and shy. However, I think that raising as a middle child is not a easy role because the middle child is always in the middle of fights between younger child and older child, also sharing everything as a gifts, cloths and toys.