Decisions

Author’s Note: In this upcoming piece, you will read my theme essay of choices, decisions , life and family struggles

Picture your life being not so hot from the decisions and choices you have made. Choices like, boyfriend and drugs, or perfect nerdy life. Perfect daughter with a future or not so perfect daughters life getting thrown away every second of the day. The downhill choices were her new life. If you choose to read the book Crank by Ellen Hopkins, you will understand more about my opinions with theme.

Drugs took a huge part in this book, not only in the book, but in her life. Kristina had met the monster inside her, named Bree. Bree took over her life until Kristina couldn't be herself anymore. Just from one boy entering her perfect little world, it brought this young girls life down the drain. Her family members worry about her, she has had three boyfriends since she had come home from her dads house. Adam, her old boyfriend, brought her Bree, he brought her drugs, he threw her life away without realizing. Kristina has changed into a bad influence. She can't live without drugs, and boys.

Not only did she have many choices to choose from, family struggles took a huge part in her life. When she was very little her dad had left her family. Her mom raised Kristina and her siblings on her own until Scott came along. Maybe Kristina was always going to turn out like this from her former life with not growing up with a dad. When she flew to visit him he still wasn't a dad to her. She loved him, but he didn't know how to care for her. She didn’t really care what her dad did when she met Adam. Adam was the start of all the trouble. The drugs, tears, and her crazed boy obsession. The reason why Kristina was with her dad for some time is because her mother’s attitude can get out of control and she struck again.

Love was a problem for Kristina and Bree. They had many boys falling for her at her mother’s. After Kristina had come back home, she ran into a few friends, guy friends. The boys she used to love until she met Adam. Something that I didn’t quite understand is that it was okay for her to have two boyfriends at a time. While shopping with her mothers  credit card from her terrible apology, she ran into two of the boys. That is when Bree came out, and brought her personality from her dads.

There are many things that the author was trying to say, but a big part I picked up was  not everyone is a perfect person and that people won't turn out the way you planned.