If You Give A Moose A Muffin Essay

Leadership Reflection

I have choose the book “If you give a Moose a Muffin” by Laura Numeroff. The story talks about a moose. A child gives a muffin to the moose. The moose requests to have some jelly to eat the muffin. Than the moose requested more muffins. Then the moose ask for something else and something else until he sees blackberries and that remains him that he likes jelly which would remain him that he wants another muffin. Overall the story repeats again and again.
This book applies to me this semester in a lot of ways. I am the moose this semester I’m focus on getting good grades just like the moose is focus on the muffin.I have my goals just like the moose has his goal. However sometimes I start to procrastinate by deviating from my goals just like the moose deviated from the muffin to other things that in reality he didn't really need. Even when the moose has a goal of eating muffin he sets his goal to a side and focuses on other things that are not important. An example of the book on how he focuses on things that are not as important as the muffin is in the story when it says “when he puts the sweater on he'll notice one of the buttons is loose he'll ask for a needle and thread he'll start sewing the button will remind him of the puppets his grandmother used to…” sometimes at school we are doing …show more content…
The moose does all his actions based on the results of previous actions. For example “he'll use the sheet to clean up the mess then I'll ask for some soap to wash it out he'll probably want to hang the sheets up to dry he'll go outside to put it on the clothesline…” which mean that the moose did all that based on the result of past actions. This relates to school because most of the times we do our homework based on results of past actions such as having a bad grade in a class would let us to trying harder in obtaining a better