On the first day, Darian and Uzma chose the book King Looie Katz. The week following the break Ruqayyah joined our group, and now today they sit discussing the choice between democracy and the pyramid scheme. They think the story is similar to democracy because in the story, the cat at the back's needs were not being met. He decided to stop holding the cat's tail in front of him. This is like Democracy because if the government in power is not meeting the needs of their people, the people will not vote for them/stop holding the tails.

The group thinks the story also relates to the "Pyramid Scheme" of the work place. This is when, for example somebody wants to sell something, they get somebody else to sell it for him, and that person gets someone else to sell it for them, etc. If the person at the end fails, everyone fails. The person at the beginning realizes that they need to sell it themselves. This connects to the story because the cat at the end "failed" to hold the tail, which affected every cat in front of him.

Ruqayyah comes up with another theme that is connected to the story. That theme is how one person/cat can influence a trend in other people, and how everyone mindlessly follows. The group thinks that it would be very easy to find articles about how people mindlessly follow trends.

The group choses to further research Ruqayyah's idea. Uzma thinks that a real life connection to the story is the Nazis. The rest of the group and Mr. Blauer agrees. There were many other ideas the group came up with such as :

• Music


• Fashion


• Fascism (Nazism)