It described in great detail all the long nights of drug use and partying. I felt like I had been up all night with Kristina. The ending was not at all predictable. When Kristina returns to her mom's house to get clean from the drugs and to have the baby you believe that she will succeed. After she talks to her mother about not being able to provide for the baby and how difficult it was to love him, she decides to give the baby to her mother to adopt and raise.
Phillip Garrido used Jaycee to satisfy his pedophilia and sexually abused her.Dugard had two children during her captivity who were teenagers by the time they were all found.As Jaycee got older the sexual abuse stopped.The Garridos kept Jaycee and her two daughters there for 18 years until Phillip was discovered by the police in 2009. This book is a memoir of her life in captivity and the slow but steady recovery she is presently going through. Conflict: The main conflict in her story was that she was away from her family whom she loved so much.She also faced other problems. For the first year she was help captive, she was kept in a room and was always alone.She repeatedly gets sexually abused by Phillip and has two daughters at a very young age. Her disturbing accounts of how cruel Phillip was when he made her perform sexual acts traumatized her possibly for life.
Yates had mental instability during the time she killed her children, and after the birth of her fifth child is when she experienced postpartum depression. After she was in prison, professionals diagnosed her with insanity and postpartum depression. Genetics also played a part since there was a history of mental illness in her family. After the death of her father, she stopped doing everything she normally would do that would take care of her and her kids and Yates had become even more depressed. Yates had not realized how much mental illness there was in her
Where Have You Been? Where Are You Going? “Where Have You Been, Where Are You Going”, by Joyce Carol Oates is a story that depicts the struggle of a girl coming of age. It is quite a disturbing story that was written by Oates after a magazine article was released about a similar story regarding a serial killer. I think the main theme of the story is the sexual victimization that have been and are facing teenagers in contemporary society.
In the book Crank by Ellen Hopkins the main character Kristina goes through the struggle of addiction with drugs, she goes all the way down to rock bottom in life, although she went through hell she ended up with a happy ending. The theme of this story is never to give into peer pressure, addiction is so powerful, you have to fight it everyday. Before Kristina starts her journey with the “monster” she visits her dad after years of her parents being divorced; The reason her parents were divorced was because of his drug use. But when she visits her dad she falls into depression and starts to fall with the wrong crowd and meets the “monster” aka meth. While she is in New Mexico she was introduced to partying and adam, the one she fell in
By: Ariana Summary Chloe Saunders is a fifteen year old girl “whose life will never be the same again.” This had started when a particularly violent ghost haunts her; she gets noticed for all the wrong reasons. Her seemingly crazed behaviour earns her trip to Lyle House, a centre for disturbed teens. While unpacking she was introduced to Mrs. Talbot, Mrs. Wang, and Miss Van Dope the nurses of the Lyle House she also met her roommate Liz who had introduced her to the others, Tori, Rae, Simon and Derek. Unexpectedly one day Liz was sent away. Was she transferred, murdered or hospitalized?
P2 Jane is 24 and has recently lost both her parents in a car accident and has turned to drugs as a coping mechanism. Because of her drug habit Jane is facing losing her job and her boyfriend of 4 years has also suggested they break up. People we love can die at any stage in our life and it is always hard to deal with the pain of losing a loved one, however the pain is even greater when we lose them at a young age or if we lose them unexpectedly. Death affects every person differently and people have different ways of coping with the death of people they love. When Jane lost her parents she will have gone through the transition of life with them to life without them and it will have been very sudden for her as they died accidentally.
Charlie has been sexually abused by his aunt when he was a child 2. Charlie has PTSD and uses it to block out bad memoires 2. Body A. What is PTSD? B. Charlie’s PTSD C. How PTSD helped me understand the book 3.
Wuornos's background was extremely troubled. Born in 1956, she was abandoned by her mother at the age of four and never knew her father, who was in prison for raping a child. Wuornos was taken in by her grandparents, who looked after her until she was fifteen, when they threw her out of the house for reasons that are not clear but seem to have involved her alcohol and drug use. Homeless, she turned to prostitution and began to rack up a series of felonies including DUI's, car theft, disorderly conduct and firearms offences. She was now in a relationship with a woman named Tyria Moore.
Just like Elisabeth Murry, she was homeless when she was in her teens, her parents did drugs and she watched her parents do drugs, she had to find a way to feed herself at an early age. But when she turned 19 she graduated college with honors and got a job at the New York Times Post. The next time you see a homeless person, do not look down on them, because as you get older you could be one