Awakened P.C. Cast & Kristen Cast Chapter 8

   In this chapter, Zoey Redbird's friends find out that she doesn't plan to come back to the academy soon. They are all in a meeting when they hear a loud noise and run outside to the quad to find out what has happened. They soon realize that Jack, Damien's boyfriend, has died. Zoey's best friend, Stevie Rae, suspects that Neferet, an evil High Priestess, has killed Jack. Feeling like she is one of the only ones that knows the truth about what happened to Jack, she makes a vow. She decides that she is going to persuade Zoey into coming back to the school, because she believes that Zoey is the only one that could help her bust Neferet. "She killed him. I don't know how, and I can't prove it right now, but she did. Then, as quickly as that thought formed, another come on it's heels: Zoey would believe me. She'd help me figure out  how to expose Neferet. Zoey has to come back. " (pg. 84)
   While I was reading this chapter, a lot of questions were on my mind. I wondered why everyone at the school was acting so openly towards Neferet. After all, she did let out Kalona, a consort that fell down to earth because of his disobedience. Everyone was treating her as if she was still such a great leader, when in reality, she had let them down.
  I connect this to our world today because, like this book, we have so many leaders that pretend to be on our side. Not only presidents, just leaders in general. We look to some celebrities and idol them, and then we find out about them cheating on their spouses, or doing cocaine. For example, Charlie Sheen, many people loved his show Two and a Half Men, at least, I know I did, and then we find out about all of his dirty laundry. It's just rather disgraceful how our society is seen today http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2011/03/14/2011-03-14_charlie_sheen_having_trouble_finding_porn_star_capri_anderson_to_serve_her_extor.html.
   In this short life that we are given, we have to learn how to live our lives to the fullest. How we portray ourselves is how we will be seen. We should just remember that in our everyday lives, we are a role models to someone.
  And please, never end up like him.