Blog #2

In the book the Burn Journals Brent was very pressured which ultimately led to him trying to kill himself. The reason Brent felt so pressured was because his parents were always on his case about why he wasn't doing good in school and why he hung out with friends that were a bad influence. They were also always asking why all of the sudden he starting wearing black all the time. Brent had felt so pressured so much that he tried to kill himself multiple times once by hanging himself but the rope broke. Another where he tried to slit his wrist but he didn't cut deep enough and fell asleep and the cuts healed. Well the way i can connect to this is because sometimes i feel very pressured by trying to get good grades and my parents always on my case about that. So i can feel pressured like Brent did but not to the point where i would try to kill my self. But there are other ways that high school students can be pressured like having to do blogs every week while reading 2 different books. : ) Or also by Finals that you have to study for. And also big end of the year projects. So there are a lot of different ways that students can be pressured but they should never use killing themselves as a solution.