Summary Of The Novel Crank

The first chapter opened my eyes to diverse topics about human sexuality in general. My generation has sex almost emotionlessly because of the hookup scene that surrounds us in society. But we have sex until one of the partners has an orgasm. “Our concept of sex has become so male-defined that the single orgasm has become the gold standard for women’s sexual response, and orgasm is often considered “optional” despite many women’s ability have multiple orgasms (Chalker 23).” This concept of sex seems to be

Every day begins with fear; every night ends with a different strange man. In a touching novel about the horrific life of a thirteen year-old Nepalese girl, Lakshmi, Patricia McCormick uses a fictional story to portray the lives of real girls. McCormick introduces the reader to the harsh truth about the existence of sex slavery. She paints a vivid picture in the reader’s mind of the brothel, where deceitful adults take an unknowing Lakshmi, called the Happiness House. Sold tells the struggles and perseverance of young girls to make the reader consider what life is like for women living in brothels or with pimps and how it affects them after their release or rescue. Having an optimistic outlook can get one far in life, but when considering

The narrator in this novel, Esch, explains sex as being “easy” when she first started having it. She explains it as easy as swimming. Jesmyne Ward writes, “The only thing that’s ever been easy for me to do, like swimming through water, was sex when I started having it”(22). This comparison shows how Esch thought about sex after she started experiencing it at a very young age. Esch uses swimming in water, a skill that is also usually learned at a young age, to explain how “easy” sex was for her. This shows how she doesn’t treat sex as a serious matter and wasn’t considering the consequences that might follow. Because of experiencing sex at such a young age, it became easy to her. She thought of it as similar to something simple that you learn as a child, which in this case happens to be swimming.

When it comes to baptism, what automatically comes to mind is bathing of holy water and immersing into a life of God. Well that isn’t the same for literature. Typically in literature, a character’s “baptism” is when a character’s belief, perspective or motivation is changed throughout the novel. A great example of a symbolic baptism is in the novel Grapes of Wrath, written by John Steinbeck, dealing with the character Noah.

Ever since its inception, Christianity has been epitomised by a range of religious practices that explore the sacred beliefs that have been upheld and spread around the world. These practices thus continue to bear a significant influence over the lives of adherents and how they seek to express their faith in Christianity. One such religious practice is that of baptism which functions as a significant milestone in the life of any

The book crank by Ellen Hopkins is about a young girl named Kristina who turns to drugs she becomes most addicted to crystle meth or the mosnter is what it is referrred to in the book through out the journy of kristinas addiction in the book she gose threw alot of struggles like being home less and having unhealthy relationships with bad giuys who will provide her with a lot of crank.

When I first came across chapter one, the story was not at all intriguing. I found all of the character’s unlikable but also not completely horrible. Nick Carraway’s description of the Buchanan’s house gave me a false belief that they are possibly good. This is due to objects that are white being portrayed as pure, the characters always being in white and the house being white is to signify that they are good and pure. Their demeanor, so casual and airy, also gave me a false idea that maybe aren't as bad and didn’t care too much for extravagant entertaining. “They were here… making only a polite pleasant effort to entertain or to be entertained. They knew that presently dinner would be over and a little later the evening too would be over and

Drugs, sex, hormones, adolescence, and decisions, decisions; All of such characterize Ellen Hopkins’, Crank. In the attention-grabbing novel is a high school junior named Kristina; a girl who has never done anything other than spend time with her family and focus on receiving straight A’s on her report card. Other characters in the novel include Bree, Kristina’s wild alter ego, Adam, or “Buddy,” whom she meets while visiting her father, Brendan, Chase Wagner, her mother, father, and other friends and family members who experience her crazed evolution. This “evolution” of Kristina begins when she leaves her home in Nevada for a short vacation with her father in New Mexico. She begins as the perfect daughter, but on her trip to visit her

Just reading an excerpt from “Crank” by Ellen Hopkins made me immediately want to read it, especially after finding out that the book was loosely based on her daughter’s life. The way this book was written was very effective because after seeing that it was written in a poetic free verse, I instantly knew it was going to be a very interesting read. My first thoughts on the main character was how innocent she was before she started taking drugs and how they had such a large impact on her life/personality.

Throughout the novel, she experiences different types of conflicts as she adapts to her new school environment and attemptedly fulfills her obsessive desire to fit in. The inner conflict in which she experiences throughout the

'Sex Without Love,' by Sharon Olds passionately described the author's disgust for casual sex in which she vividly animates the immorality of lustful sex through the variety of her language. The sarcasm used in this selection can easily be misunderstood and quite confusing if the words and lines are not analyzed with specific construction. Olds' clever use of imagery and frequent uses of similes, to make the reader imagine actual events, makes this poem come to life. For example, Olds describes making love as 'Beautiful as dancers.' (Line #2) in this line, she questions how one can do such a beautiful act with a person whom one is not in love with. Olds also describes sex as 'gliding over each other

A Dollhouse by Henrik Ibsen is the story of one woman’s struggle to free herself

She discovers how selfish her husband truly is when she is momentarily caught into a scandal. Though she would do anything to protect him, he would not raise a finger to assist her if it meant tarnishing his social standing. Upon discovering this, Nora stands up for herself and leaves all that she has known in order to find her true identity, and save her children from a similar fate. This evolution of character embodies a revolution within the female half of the population. Nora represents a faction of the population which was widely unrepresented, and generally considered the lowest minority. Through A Doll?s House, Ibsen shows his love of social change.

In conclusion The irony shown in this book about corruption, oppression of the poor, reality of India vs. the images foreigners have of India help portray our understanding of this novel. The corruption shown in the book is the teacher stealing the student’s money and the school inspector getting a question that he asked wrong. The reality of India vs. the images foreigners have of India is shown in the book there was framing involved and no doctors in government hospitals. last but not least is the oppression of the poor is

In conclusion, ‘’Are We Nearly There’’ by Kate Smalley Ellis is a short story about what having sex for the first time is like. By following the inexperienced and young protagonist, the reader is able to see that sex is not as amazing as the media portrays it as. Jen is disappointed and dissatisfied and she starts mixing up what happened last night with the present tense, which makes her unable to