The Third in the Series, Ellen Hopkins’ Fallout

In Ellen Hopkins’ Identical, twins Kaeleigh and Raeanne bring dark secrets to light. After the girls’ daddy, Raymond Gardella - a comely city judge - causes a car accident involving them and their mother, the family begins to fall apart at the seams. The girls’ mother soon after turns frigid, showing little to no emotion towards their daddy, and she eventually leaves them all. The loss of their mother, and their daddy’s loss of his wife, sends all them all into a downward spiral, which is just the start of the family dilemmas. Despite the family’s desperate pleas to have her back, she still refuses, and soon takes up an interest in the city politics. While she is gone, the girls’ daddy does some repugnant things that should have him put in jail, but only Kaeleigh and Raeanne know – and they’re smart enough not to open their mouths about it, or daddy will make it worse.

For her, everyday acts seem much more enjoyable when on drugs. She goes out of their way to experience something new and exciting. She is a creative writer and uses drugs as a way to get back to her child-like imaginative state. Suddenly, with the drugs back in her life, she seems to have much more insight and a wilder imagination. "And the afternoon was absinthe yellow and almond, burnt orange and chrysanthemum. And in the abstract sky, a litany of kites"(93). She longs to feel this way all of the time, but she knows the consequences. She sees doing drugs like going to a carnival. It is an escape from the boring life she is leading now. Even though she has a daughter, she still feels like there is something she is missing out on. The idea of motherhood takes backseat to her lust for drugs.

“Doe season” is a short literary work featured in one of Kaplan's popular collections. “Doe Season” may be short in length relative to other types of literature, but exhibits a deep, underlying meaning that burrows deeper than the story itself. One of the key components to the creation of “Doe Season” is the symbolism it displays. The title itself is very symbolic, as well as the descriptive writing used in this short work. While “Doe Season” takes place in a common setting, traversing the woods while hunting, a few aspects of the story are unique in the sense that the story is told from a 9-year-old girl's perspective. While hunting has long been seen as a man's task or hobby, this story follows

Autumn lives with her aunt Cora and her grandfather, although Autumn know who her father is, she feels as if she wasn’t loved because her father was never in her life. Autumn has never had a boyfriend before and now that she’s dating the new boy from school, she is afraid that if she doesn’t do what he says, he will loose interest in her and will find someone else. This shows that Autumn is insecure and is willing to do what ever it takes to keep her boyfriend, this the leads autumn to bad decisions. Due to the fact that Autumn is so insecure she ends up being her boyfriends slave and not valuing her

In “Summer Life”, Gary Soto takes the reader through a guilt-filled day from his childhood. He describes himself at 6 years old stealing a pie. Utilizing Biblical allusions, Vivid Imagery, and an immaculate diction

Summary: In this section of the book we finish summer and begin fall. We learn the process in making hay and what they do with it. The job requires hard labor so they need to get their neighbors to help them with it. While the boys are working, Mother is in the kitchen all day cooking pies, meat, and potatoes. After the labor is over, they all feast on the large amounts of food mother prepared. We also learn that Eldon has trouble working because one time she coughed blood for a long time after a long day at work and that is why she does the least amount of work out of everyone. Fall begins and they always start off fall by going for a swim at their neighboring lake. Once they get home, they kill and prepare the meats of their

The fiction novel, Glass by Ellen Hopkins, is a sequel to another novel I've read called Crank. Glass is a story about a young 18 year old girl named Kristina. Kristina has recently given birth to a baby boy after overcoming an addiction to crystal meth. Her baby was born healthy and she was fine without her drugs but soon the temptation came back. She gives into the temptations and starts using again. Soon, she meets a drug esker named Trey, who specializes in the more expensive meth. Kristina immediately is drawn to him and starts to date him. Soon, the entire relationship is focused only on sex and meth. The drugs did to both of their emotions and soon they truly believe they're in love and all they'll need is each other and the crystal meth. Kristina's mother has been watching her baby constantly and when Kristina leaves the baby in danger, her mother is quick to kick her out. Kristina and Trey save up money and move in together. They're sure they have a good life, even though they're still both heavy drug addicts. Kristina takes her baby from her mother and attempts to raise on her own. But with

Born near Milan Italy, Alex is the son of a drug addict, and an abusive father who dealt drugs and was often absent. At the age of ___ Alex was sent to live in an orphanage where he would spend the majority of his childhood. With the orphanage providing his basic needs (food, clothing, an education) Alex deeply felt the void of family and his mother’s love. The yearning to

For a few short years, she was married to a man she loved, and she had family who would support her through anything. However, when she was 22, she was faced with the devastating loss of her mother. With her mother being the cornerstone that held her life together, it began to fall into pieces. Her family, who were once ___ close, started to wander away. “Without her, Eddie slowly became a stranger. Leif and Karen and I drifted into our own lives,” her stepfather married someone else, and both of her siblings moved away (Strayed, 34). They turned into “four people floating separately among the flotsam of [their] grief”, Cheryl felt alone and like she “wasn’t able to keep [her] family together.” (Strayed, 34). Since her family was falling apart, she began to run away from her marriage. She started having affairs with a multitude of men, the most significant being Joe. He offered Cheryl an ‘out’ at the worst time in her life, heroin seemed like an escape route for her from her problems. This would be one of the hardest obstacles Cheryl had to overcome, a heroin addiction, she has “pulled it [heroin] in with both hands,” not stopping to think about what she was really doing (Strayed, 52). This was not the last straw though, weeks before her hike she had an abortion. “That I would get an abortion was a fact so apparent it seemed silly to discuss anything else,” Cheryl knew she was not in the right

At 11 years old she saw her mother deceased in a casket. She gave birth to her first baby at the age of 16 and had five more children to relieve issues of feeling empty and alone. As the pressures of teen pregnancy, poverty and motherhood mount Diane turns to crack cocaine and neglect her then young children. Her eldest daughter reports her drug use to her teachers which results in the removal of all six of Diane’s children into foster care for a period of 10 years. During that time Diane turns to her community drug rehabilitation center, Child welfare services, her religion and her therapist for help in recovering from her addictions and for help in reuniting with her children.

This story... Where to begin? The main character suffers migraines after a traumatic incident that killed her friends. Cady (the protagonist) doesn’t know what she’s missing of Summer 15, but from the reader’s perspective and the looming foreshadowing, it’s obviously extremely important to her background. Her cousins and aunts aren’t allowed to say anything that may jostle her memories, she’s supposed to remember on her own. Gat, Mirren, Johnny, and Cadence spend the majority of the writing piece leading

This story follows Charlie as he visits his daughter, Honoria, in hopes to receive custody of her. Charlie’s deceased wife’s sister and her husband have custody of Honoria. A few years back, Charlie was deemed unfit to take care of her as he was an alcoholic, however, he is now a “reformed” alcoholic.

Once this girl started with the drugs, she could not stop. As soon as she tried the first drug, it lead to all of the other drugs and things that she did. Her first time doing the drug was an accident, and she did not know, but she made the wrong choice in continuing to do them. She said it gave her a feeling of belonging and love that she had never felt before. If her parents or her close friends had paid more attention to her, then some of the events that happened would not have happened. Her heavy drug use lead to her runaway from home to the streets, involvement in crime, her prostitution, and her visit to the insane asylum. She found a "best friend" (Chris) - one that would give her drugs - and they decided to runaway and leave their family and friends to start their own shop in San Francisco. They thought they could not handle their parents telling them what is right and what is wrong, but that is what they needed to hear. They were naive in thinking they could live their lives alone without any rules or any authority.

“The Compound”, by S.A. Bodeen, is a story that shows how a rich family goes through their new live of living in an underground nuclear bunker while dealing with the insanity that comes along with it. Unlike some books that focus on the post-apocalyptic setting, instead of focusing on the dangers that a character faces in life, they are up against the conflicts of their own mind.

     Alice’s drug addiction drives her along with her family insane. She has to fight a