After reading part one of Gone from the Promise Land, I was not at all surprised to find out how troublesome Jim Jones’s childhood was. In class, I learned that Jim Jones had thought of himself as ‘God’ and he had lead a religion where he was able to convince the followers of this religion to commit suicide. Since Jim Jones was able to convince a large number of people to commit suicide, I thought that his reasoning for doing this must have stemmed from his childhood. I thought it stemmed from his childhood because most troublesome actions stem from something that happened in one’s youth. As the book describes Jim’s youth, it had described Jim as being an aggressive kid, “I was ready to kill by the end of the third grade. I mean, I was so fucking
