Summary Of Impulse By Ellen Hopkins

Impulse by: Ellen Hopkins

“Point it in the right spot. Just pull the trigger.” Suicide whispers at your ears. You’re so close to death you can feel it take you in like you take in the sun on a warm summer day. Except it’s not summer, you’re not warm and you are dying. You are choosing the quickest way to end the pain you feel inside, not thinking of the pain you are going to cause the people around you. Like Vanessa, Tony and Connor did in the book Impulse by Ellen Hopkins. What is the point of suicide? Impulse is a very well written, well thought out novel that touches on the lives of three young teens who attempt to commit suicide and are locked away. “When you try the big S, the first thing they do is lock you away by yourself, like

Along with taking on the mother role because her mom can’t handle it she is the father as well. Her father is gone to a military base. Instead of attempting suicide, she should have looked to the good in life. She had a Grandma that was there for her and didn’t want this for her granddaughter. “Stay with me, Vanessa.” (Hopkins page 35). Vanessa had a little brother who had to find her bleeding on a bathroom floor. So, why would she want to put her family through that? She should have looked at her grandma and brother and not given up on life. Should have thought about how much it would suck for Bryan to have to go through life being the boy whose sister killed herself. Vanessa should have had the ambition to live on after her mother was sent away and be a better mother, wife, and human being than her mother could have ever done. Instead of ending the pain the easiest and quickest way possible she could have seen a doctor, gotten a diagnosis and worked to better herself. She should have made the problems in her life a tiny little piece of it instead of her whole entire

Parents who only care about you getting good grades and scoring the winning touchdown rather than your feelings and a sister that only cares about being better than you. That was Connor’s problem. He was pressured so much to do well in areas other than life that he didn't know what it meant to be loved or to love. Connor felt like suicide was the only answer after losing the one person he thought he had finally loved. He sadly succeeded at the end of the book. What did he have to look forward to? Football. Football and grades could have gotten him so far in life and love would come after. He had a talent in football and always got good grades and he should have focused on that. Connor could have let go of the family problems he was having and focused on getting himself into a good college and leaving his damaged home. He was a senior in high school and could have left in a few short months. He could, no, he should have made a life of himself and went to