How I Live Now By Meg Rosoff

What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be alive? Being human and living are shown through the six shared humanity characteristics. These characteristic categories exist to help people better understand what it is like to be human. Readers can also see the six shared humanity characteristics of loss, emotion, choice, relationship, survival, and mortality through Literature. The six characteristics are shown in the Novels “How I live Now” by Meg Rosoff and “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie” by Jordan Sonnenblick.
The book “How I Live Now” by Meg Rosoff depict great examples of shared humanity characteristics such as Loss, Relationship, and Survival. One night when Aunt Penn was home Daisy snuck over to her office, “I went quietly

When the war intensifies to the point it is right outside of the barn that they are hiding at Daisy decides that it is time to make the journey back to the farm, “At about four in the morning a few night later we woke up to the noise of a lot of scuffling and shouting and Baz saying Get all your stuff together and Stay Here and then him disappearing into the chaos and us not being able to see anything much because there were no lights”(118). Baz comes back into the barn and give Daisy a package and then leaves and Daisy and Piper leave off on their own, “and shoved a heavy package into my hands and before I had the chance to see what it was he was running back in the direction we came. Come on Piper, I said, let’s keep going while it’s still dark ad we can find someplace to hide and then we’ll rest when it gets light

When Daisy had first arrived to her cousins right at that point readers could see there was something drawing them together. Before the war started Edmond and Daisy’s relationship progressed from talking and sneaking around, to being open about their relationship and becoming more physical, “Edmond and I would slip away up to the tiny bedroom at the top of the house or the big storage closet under the eaves of the lambing barn or one of about a thousand places we’d found where we could try and try to get enough of each other but it was like some witch’s curse where the more we tried to stop being hungry the more starving we got”(53). Morality is knowing right from wrong and good and bad behavior. Choice is having the options to do something depending on a situation. Rosoff is showing that Daisy and Edmond should both know what they are doing should be immoral. Also that they made the choice to still do these things together knowing that it is immoral to have a relationship with your cousin. This makes the audience feel disgusted and dislike Daisy and Edmond because of their choice and immorality. Daisy has this relationship with Edmond because she had never known of a loving relationship or right morals, and she has never had to make a choice of being in that kind of relationship. Although Daisy should know greater than to be with her cousin, she still