Massacres

The book shows us what could happen, when we don’t care of people around us in our society. In the next few sentences I will show you examples and opinions about massacres.

The author uses the relationship between youngsters for his book as a topic, which ends in a massacre. In the last years there happened a lot of massacres for example in Erfurt or in Colorado USA the Columbine High School. In both examples there were youngsters, who killed a lot of other teenager and teacher. Today it’s a delicate topic and the politics doesn’t know how to deal with it. All the youngsters, who caused a massacre, were frustrated, angry or they killed because of their lovesickness. I think it’s necessary to talk in school about it because you must be in formed about it. The new medias like Internet and gaming is another problem because there are a lot of "killing games" and when you’re playing a lot of time, you will get addictive and anytime you are not able to differ between reality and fantasy.

My opinion is that we can’t avoid a massacre, but we have to care about other people around.

Chris at his party

Chris´s expectations

Chris is very self-confident and he wants to fuck Sara, whatever will happen! He has hidden all his porn away because he thinks he will never need a porn movie again. He thinks he´s cool, and good-looking, because of that his opinion is that he will get Sara instead of her boyfriend Sean. He guess that Sara wants to fuck with him, too.
He doesn´t want to have too many guests at his party! He only wants to be with Sara!

My personal comment about "working with our weblog"

I want to say something about my weblog:

• I wrote my weblog in the past because I wrote it from White Mike´s point of view, so I had to use the past
• I really enjoyed it to work with a weblog it´s something new, we never did something like it before ;)
• we learnt a lot of New York, Manhattan and the districts in Manhattan
  

Setting of the book

• 90^th street / Madison Avenue -> Chris´s house
• Central Park -> zoo / Warren´s nanny walks with Warren, Charlie and White Mike
• Canal Street / China town -> Claude and Tobias bought their weapons
• 117^th street / 3^rd Avenue -> Nana´s home, Charlie and Nana killed by Lionel
• 96^th street / 3^rd Avenue -> bad restaurant
• 79^th street / Park Avenue -> Hunter walks and listens to James Taylor
• 76^th street / Park Avenue -> Mike gets out of a cab
• 50^th street / 9^th Avenue -> shop where Charlie bought his gun
• Canal Street / Bowery Street -> prison
• Bleeker Street -> Claude bought his fake ID
• 96^th Street / Park Avenue -> rec
• 86^th Street / Lexington Avenue -> place where Hunter finds White Mike during his experiment
• 91^st Street / Lexington Avenue -> deal between White Mike, Lionel and Jessica
• Wollman Rink in Central Park -> Jessica met her girlfriends to go ice-skating
• 84^th -90^th / East End Avenue Carl Schurz Park -> Andrew and Sven are playing chess

Connection between Mainhattan and Manhattan

I think there are a lot of similarities between Mainhattan and Manhattan. Manhattan is America´s Financial District and Mainhattan is of course Germany´s Financial District perhaps Europe´s, because of the European Central Bank.
Manhattan has a skyline and Mainhattan is the only city in Europe, which has also a skyline. Frankfurt has a stock market, too but Mainhattan is not as big as Manhattan.
Mainhattan has also a sculpture nearby the stock exchange, but it´s a bear and a bull together. The Frankfurt Stock Exchange (DBAG=Deutsche Börsen Aktien Gesellschaft) is not as old as the NYSE is, it was founded in 1992.

Financial District

The Financial District of New York, which is also called FiDi, includes the headquarters of many financial institutions, for example the World Financial Center or the Stock Exchange. It´s the area between south of City Hall Park and Battery Park and the heart of the district is the corner of Wall Street and Broad Street (look at the picture).





The Wall Street was the first home of the New York Stock Exchange and later on the surrounding area got the name of it, it´s also a metonymy for "influential financial interests".

The "Big Board" which is the nickname of the New York Stock Exchange is one of the largest stock exchanges in the world and it has 2,764 listed securities. The NYSE is very important for the economy in the USA.









The "Wall Street Bull","Charging Bull" or "Bowling Green Bull" is a 3,200kg bronze sculpture, which is in the Bowling Green Park. It stands for America´s aggressive financial optimism and prosperity.

Mind map about New York