Impulse For my book report I read the book Impulse, by Ellen Hopkins. Impulse is mainly about the stories of three kids: Conner, Tony, and Vanessa. They all lived very troubled lives, didn’t know what to do and ended up taking the wrong road. They all eventually got sent to a Psyche ward named Aspen Springs, and that’s where they all met. Conner didn't like his life anymore, and when his parents weren't home he stole a gun and tried to shoot himself in the heart.
I snapped.” Because Vince keeps letting others hurt him for who he is, he becomes smaller as a person. Even his godfather, who was supposed to help him find his true identity, called him honey, thinking that Vince would be fine. Therefore, fear shouldn’t be destroying who we are because it’s not going to do any good except for hurting us physically. Secondly, fear shouldn’t hold us back because we are not alone. Someone close to us may be experiencing the same thing and we just may not know it.
Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. No one wants to suffer. But we all do at some time. When I read the article “what suffering does” by David Brooks, made me understand that even though people always look for happiness, but feel formed through suffering. We suffer, and people suffer around us, in so many different ways.
Because of my unintelligent decision to take something at which did not belong to me, my parents looked down on me as if I was a thief. I’m very embarrassed of my actions but there’s nothing I can do to erase it I can only make this a learning experience and make better choices next time around. As teenagers were often expected to make the right choices but we never really evaluate the good and bad in anything. We just do things in the moment then look back after it already has affected us and we wish we would have evaluated the negative and the positives of the decisions we have made. "A smart man learns from his own mistakes, but a wise man learns from others mistakes."
Someone who blames everyone else for the consequences of their actions? Someone who doesn't own-up to their actions and try to make the situation better again? Cole is that 'someone'. He goes to the island mad at his parents because all the other times that he was in trouble with the law, his parents would pay the fees and get him out, however, this time, none of that happens. It was his mistake for beating up Peter anyways, yet he's mad at his parents and his lawyer because they didn't get him out.
Christopher moves away from his father as he cannot stand people who lie to him or anyone as he cannot get his head around what might actually be true. Christopher and his father have made a noticeable progress in restoring their bond; they remain distant from one another when compared with how close they were at the start of the novel. Besides, Christopher no longer lives with his father, and he still distrusts his father to a large degree. Social Intolerance & Crossing Social Boundaries The text examines social relations and the way in which individuals demonstrate or reject/deny
Amir discovers how badly he treated Hassan in their past, that he wants to make up for it. I personally do not believe that Amir finds redemption because although he wants to redeem himself, he is only thinking of himself again. He never adopts Sohrab out of the goodness of his heart but
He is not of noble birth; He is just the average guy. He does however make an error in judgment that leads to his son’s failure and ultimately to his own decline. Willy is having an affair and when Biff finds out, it crushes him. The love between Father and son is destroyed. Biff then decides that he is not going to finish school and therefore does not become successful, which was his Father’s big dream.
In fact, I was conceived and born on drugs. Throughout childhood my parents were so heavily on drugs that I barely saw them. And as a young boy I was just excited to meet new people but looking back now, I realize that was wrong. When I was 5 years old my mother gave me and my other siblings up to the state. All of my siblings were separated into different adopted homes.
The last example of the labeling theory has to do with a girl I met last year that I really connected with. After putting in the groundwork for a successful relationship, I told her I was a recovering heroin addict. This ruined all that we had built. Her uncle was an addict and chose drugs over her family and caused her a lot of pain. She projected that on me and did not want to even get involved as a result of that.