Adam introduced Kristina to “Bree” the monster, or her alternate personality when she entered her second world of cocaine. Them two fell into a deep romance throughout the whole summer. When she had to come back to the real world, in Reno, unfortunately the addiction followed her. At that point she would do whatever it takes to get her hands on it. She soon met two boys named Chase and Brendon.
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
PRECIOUS The movie I’m conducting a content analysis on is “Precious”, which is based on the novel “Push”. Claireece Precious Jones, also known as Precious is overweight African American teenager who is still in Junior High School at the age of 16 years old. She lives with her mother in an apartment in the slums of New York. Precious is a victim of psychology, physical, and sexual abuse from both her mother and father. She has had one child and is pregnant with her second child by her father; that is considered incest.
Glass Kristina Snow is suffering from an addiction to meth and she struggles with it until she gives in and the “monster,” as she refers to it, takes her under again and she slowly loses everything, including her family and her baby. The book ends with her and her boyfriend being thrown into jail for possession, transportation, and intent to distribute meth. She also finds out she is pregnant with his baby. The tone the author uses for Kr.istina’s voice is very scattered from the beginning, when she is suffering from withdrawal, when she is high, and when she is crashing by the end of the novel. Glass is the 2nd novel in the Crank trilogy by Ellen Hopkins.
Anonymous meetings. Her mother Bonnie Plunkett (Allison Janney) is also a recovering drug and alcohol addict. Christy's 17-year-old daughter Violet (Sadie Calvano), who was born when Christy was 16, has herself become a teen mother by her boyfriend Luke. Christy also has a younger son Roscoe by her ex-husband Baxter, a deadbeat but likeable pothead. Cast and characters[edit] Main[edit] * Anna Faris as Christy Plunkett, a single mother who has gone a year without drinking and is still struggling with addiction.
Many novels in this genre tackle personal issues such as dating, relationships, weight issues, life issues and many more. Often told from a point of view that pulls the audience in as if the narrator is confiding in them, Chick Lit novels offer something to identify with, and a great percentage of the audience take comfort from this. I love the odd book to read that’s light and funny and easy going and I am one hundred per cent a sucker for a happy ending; everything that is beheld in a Chick Lit novel, but can we call it literature and is it really any good when compared to Authors such as Stephen King and
Celie is a woman who from the young age of 14 was raped, had to children by her daddy, and lost her mother. Nobody in the world loves Celie but her sister Nettie. To Celie’s dismay Nettie has to run away after being nearly raped by her father, and Celie’s new husband known as Mr.____. Mr.____ continuously beats and emotionally abuses Celie through the story. Celie begins to fall in love with Shug Avery Mr.____'s mistress who is known as the towns whore while this happens Mr._____'s eldest son Harpo falls in love with Sofia.
And what begins as a wild, ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul--her life. Kristina goes to New Mexico to see her father. When she goes, the first night she meets a boy named Adam, who pretty much introduced her to the monster. They are instantly attracted to each other. One night, Adam shows Kristina or "Bree" crank, the monster.
The young girl name was Marcie Calder two days before her seventeenth birthday she was killed and she was pregnant. Sam was the vice president of Salt Lake City High and was the track coach. Sam had a secret a fare with his student and one night she told her she was pregnant with his baby he didn’t know what to do and killed her and made it seem like she killed herself. Tony believed Sam of what he had said happened that he just left her at the park where they were talking and that was the last time he had seen her and went home. The trial went on and there as evidence that he had a mode if to kill her.
In the article “Methamphetamine: Are Tougher Anti-Meth Laws Needed?” Rusty Payne, spokesman for United States Drug Enforcement Administration, says, “Parents are consumed with getting their next high, they completely neglect everything around them, including their children.” When a meth user comes off of the high meth produces, often times they sleep for days on end. While in the process of coming off a meth high, a mother let her seven month old drown. Methamphetamine can enter a child’s bloodstream from coming in contact with someone cooking or smoking meth. When officers searched meth labs in 2003, seventy percent of children had toxic chemicals in their system. Children who come in contact with methamphetamine on a daily basis can develop cancer or liver, kidney, spleen, or brain damage.