Shelter

Every one of these pieces give basically the same definition of shelter, but with different forms, either physical or emotional. The physical examples of shelter come from both Ban and McDaniel with their temporary disaster relief housing methods, and the emotional from Bob Dylan’s song to the one by the Rolling Stones. Then in the story written by Updike, which gives the reader the impression that William has a sense of both; the physical by the fact that his high school gives him shelter from the whether outside, and the emotional coming from his looking forward into his future dream of being a great writer like Tennyson.  While all gave a somewhat different way of providing shelter, they all were a part of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, from the need for physical refuge to the need for emotional stability and refuge.

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