Commentary

This book was an auto biography of a persons life that was goin down hill. All her life she was surrounded by secoundary groups and ever had anything close knit. Her family never understood her she had no one to help socialize her. This book opens my eyes to the crazy ideas of cults and what really happens in them. they all pretty much lost slf control over themselves. pretty much couldnt think for themselves anymore. They Forgot eveything they were ever taught and pushed away everyone close to them who cared about them. Sociology helped me understand this book becuase when we were learnng abouyt families and groups it showns how cults are apart of group-polarization and task leadership. they're apart of group-polarization because they always made drastic decisions like no sex between married couples and all men are homo sexuals and movin 1,000 people into a jungle becuas they feared a holocaust. they have task leadreship because jim jones had many goals nade up everyday. They all had to come up with a certain amount of mone for him, everyone wworked in the feilds and had to complete a certain job in the middle of the jonestown jungle, and many more. im jones had made himself go crazy. The author was trying to help people see the dangeres and signs of cults and what can happen to you and how it will impact your life.