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I think this book was very succesful. It helped me learn a lot about cults and deep into the thoughts of people like that. In sociology terms any other kind of group wouldnt have worked with it because no one was like a famiy or best friends because there was no trust everyone would spy on each other and snitch on what each had done everyday. it couldnt have been a dyad or triad because it had over a thousand membersThey didn't have socieomotional leadership becas jim jones made very poor decisions about everything. it couldn't be an aggregate because opeople came there because they felt empty and lonely and they stayed top feel loved by jim jones. they were definetly were a social group, had group dynamics, and group think because they al did share the same beliefs and vales, they all interacted with each other on a daily basis, they overlookked all the major problems that were going on with the church and had very poor judgement on what was happening with there lifes. They made extremelt bad choices for themselves by commiting the mass suicide. It was unrealistic to me how she didn't see the signs when he would rape her and enjoy it after he said sex was forrbidden. the author helped me understand a whole lot because, it showed me exactly what happens in cults and religious group[s like that.