Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Prompt: Who has “power” in your text? How does that power get
shown?
Crank is a story about a teenage girl
Kristina who sometimes goes under the alias Bree. As Kristina she’s a straight A student,
perfect daughter. When Bree takes over,
she becomes a smooth talking girl out for meth.
One summer she goes to visit her dad, and ends up trying meth for the
first time, and soon she’s hooked. Once
home she does many things all ending up in bad situations to get crank. The end of the book has gone through many
things, such as dealing to other addicts in her town, raping her, discovering
she’s pregnant, relapses, jail time, and meeting Chase, who is mostly a good
and helpful guy.
Technically
the “who” is crank in this situation.
The drug has complete control over Kristina, her actions, her behavior
and her happiness. Most of the time all
Kristina thinks about is meth. Where and
who she can get it from, how she can take it, how long her stash will
last. The only real reason she was dealing
meth was so she could have more of it for herself. It had become an addiction and a lifestyle. All the really thought about was her drugs,
many times over family and friends. Even
though she was pregnant she couldn’t always stop her pull to crank. It is shown throughout the whole book, but
near the end when she’s going through withdrawal that’s when you see just how
much power it had over her. Fighting it
seemed so hard for her. The crashes were
really bad too. In those moments it
shows just how much control meth had over her, because you could see how she
somehow depended on it.
I choose
this question because it seemed fitting and a good way to show the affect crank
had on her. Although it dealt with
several hard issues, Crank was a very well writing book, which invoked good
points about the life of an addiction (through their point of view). Because the author has experience, her
daughter being a meth addict, it seemed very heartfelt and raw. All in all, I really liked this book.
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