Growing Up

     In the book Crank by Ellen Hopkins, a girl named Kristina Wagner gets addicted to meth and does some umiaginable things. Now she is pregnant and is about to give birth, yet she is still addicted to the drug and can't give it up. Kristina is undecided of what to do with a baby of her own at 17.We always say we would grow up someday, but when? When is it the right  time to grow up?
    
     I think that the best time to grow up is once you now how to start thinking logically on your own, yet still ask for help when you need to. Many people in our live grow up until we face the moment and sometimes we just leave it behind. Many people don't know what to do in that situation so they either hurt themselves or others. There are many things in life that start to set boundaries of where your childhood ends and where adulthood starts.For example in the book the time Kristina leaves her childhood is when she meets Adam in Alburquerque. When Kristina starts adulthood is when she is going to do it with Brendan. She knows she isn't supposed to do it yet she still does it.

     All in all I think that it depends on what you have been influenced by. Many people do things because of what they see in their surroundings.  Kristins started drugs because of her father and Adam. Also we need to take precautions in order to not cause terrible things, just like what happened to Kristina. We need to grow up at certain points.

We Always Want More

** If you are joining the book club, don't read it**

"Red and raw like my heart..."  

         In the book Crank by Ellen Hopkins it is about how a perfect girl,Kristina, gets addicted to a drug. It changes her life 360 degrees. She doesn't realize that this would affect her life and also the damage this drug does to you.  So she changes her name and her identity yet she is still the same person. One thing I have realized is that once you get addicted to it you can't really stop and you want more just as if you like someone. So I chose this line because Kristina/Bree likes it so much, it is similar to a heart.
         This line really spoke to me because she found someone that she likes yet she also found a monster that she likes even though it is torturing her around. When I think about this I am surprised how many people are at the peak of the mountain and once they meet it they fall back down from where they started. Something so small can control you around and it can even lead you to changing who you are. This is so addicting that you would want more every time just like when you like someone. You would want to see them more often and you think that they keep your heart beating. Though what we don't realize is that it starts to control you and we can't even see it to stop it from controlling you.
        I have seen so many people get addicted and they have finished in destruction. so many girls have babies at such a young age because they fall in to something that they can't see coming. These girls just get addicted to these guys that they don't see what they are doing. They just think about them 100% of the time. they don't see the damage coming towards them. We fall in to deep holes, that sometimes we don't know how to dig our way back out.