Do you ever have those moments in life? Those “aha” moments where you know your life will never be the same? The name was Adam Marvin, and every time he closed his eyes there he was, reliving his aha moment. He could tell deep in his bones that after his first encounter with this particular girl his life would be forever changed. He looked at her and that was all it took. Looking into her eyes was like letting anything bad that had ever happened to him slowly vanish into nothing. She was his relief. She was his bliss. She was Heroin Vikken.
Adam was at the mall with his best friend Dave who was cluelessly looking for a gift for his girlfriend 's birthday which was in less than 24 hours. Dave had run off somewhere without him so he was leaning against the railing searching for his friend when she walked up and changed everything. “Beautiful isn’t it?” she asked, with a smirk on her face. “What?” he squeaked out. The girls question had startled him; he hadn’t noticed her walk up. “Don’t you think it’s beautiful? The way people interact with each other. I love standing here and watching everything go on around me. All these individuals with their own lives going on minding
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Every waking thought was about Heroin. He spent every second he possibly could by her side and those few moments he wasn’t felt like Hell. He sat there wondering what was different about her, to everyone else around him she seemed to be just a regular girl, but he was addicted. He couldn’t imagine living a life without her in it. He thought that a life without her just wouldn’t be worth living. Sometimes the love he felt concerned him, it consumed his every thought and terrified him to the bone. What would he do without her? Who would he become without her? What was this undeniable obsession with this particular human being? Dave kept telling him that the relationship was toxic, but the only thing that crossed Adam’s mind was Is this a relationship? What is
She dedicates this book to her “..family, and all the families whose lives have been touched by the monster.” Kristina talks about what a horrible person her mother is; a wannabe writer who never spends enough time with her daughter. A step dad who always has a stick up his butt. A brother who is spoiled and is too caught up in sports and video games to notice any change. Her sister is wonderful, but recently came out as a lesbian and caused distance between them so she moved away. Kristina was alone, until she met “the monster”. “The monster” is just a metaphor Ellen uses to describe the drug Methamphetamine, better known a Crystal Meth. Crystal meth can be eaten, snorted up the nose, or
Everyone has some form of a relationship in their life, whether it's with friends, a significant other, parents, or something else, and we can’t deny it. Those relationships can either negative or positive. As Aza is stuck in her mental illness, she doesn’t realize that as she travels through her life, the people she’s with have both a positive and a negative effect on her.
...bolism of colors, her growing fondness of "Chameleon Lenny," right up to her first puff of the cigarette, it is evident that she will not be able to overcome her temptations and be drawn back into the world of drugs and alcohol, only more intense this time (93). She has seen the sober life and she isn't happy with it. Her cigarette smoking and drinking, although not illegal, will still conform to her downfall. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. At the beginning of the story we see hope for someone who brings cookies to her AA meetings, who sits and drinks coffee while her daughter is at dance practice, but unfortunately in the end, "There is only this infected blue enormity elongating defiantly" (107). Once an addict, always an addict, "When the glass was finished she would pour another. When the bottle was empty, she would buy another" (107).
From the cigarette they shared to the Ferrari ride, she risks her life to be with this so called “man”. “Silence. She was looking at Lenny’s legs, how white the exposed skin was. She was thinking that he brought his sick body to her, that he was bloated, enormous with pathology and bad history, with jails and demented resentments”(98). What she thinks of him represents what happened in the past and what will happen to her if she decides to continue her drug use.
In the book Nic would hang out with another addict named Gack who would take things apart such as a stereo or Nic taking apart his computer, but not being able to put it back together. I remember speaking about this in class, its called getting “hung up” in which they have repetitive thoughts and do something for hours on end. Throughout the story Nic was constantly hung up, whether it was having sex with Lauren or Zelda for hours as he described or having the same thoughts of how he’s not good enough to be with Zelda, or his family, or even his friend Spencer. He constantly worried about people liking him and didn’t take the time to actually like himself. All the characters throughout this book that were addicts were constantly paranoid, irritable, self-conscious and always suspicious of other people or police. For instance, Zelda went into a psychosis from taking meth and would attack Nic and yell at him thinking that he was hiding drugs. In class we learned that this kind of behavior happens when drugs are taken in high doses all the time. Also, I learned from class that people who are depressed they use stimulants instead of anti-depressants and anyone that is reading this story can definitely tell early on that Nic is depressed. He has a lot of issues with himself, his family, and relationships with people throughout the book. Towards the end of the book when Nic was in the Safe Passage Center rehab in Arizona he felt bugs crawling all over him as he lay in his bed and at first I thought they were real insects crawling on him. Then I remembered from class when we were talking about “Cocaine Bugs” and how an addict will think there are bugs on them but there isn’t anything actually there. Being that Nic was taking a lot of different
Anthony Padilla had no idea that when he woke up this morning his life was going to change forever. He thought it was going to be ordinary, just like any other, simple day in high school. Though when he walked in his first period, a normal, regular day was the furthest thing from his mind.
Arriving at Lacey’s house I walk to the backdoor letting myself into the house. Lacey was putting on tanning lotion in the kitchen, “Lacey,” I called to her, “my mom wants me to pick up snacks for the beach, do you want to go into town with me?”, “Sure,” she replied, “do you mind if my cousin comes with us?”, “Of course I don’t mind,“ I answered, “but we have to get moving, my dad only left me the car to use ‘til noon.”
..., you feel as if you are in Kristina’s shoes telling her story. Minimalist verses perfectly demonstrate Kristina’s dissociation and muddled despair. (Kirkus Reviews). The author really emphasizes meth as if it’s own character, giving it feelings and power. The emphasision of meth makes you believe that it’s the highly addictive “monster” that makes Kristina’s life spiral out of control and not her.
The small legs that whisked back and forth in the open space of the vehicle were full of energy. The young girl spent the day with the two people she admired the most. A bigger version of herself sat in the passenger seat with her husband driving next to her. They laughed over conversation. Every so often, the girl would stick thin fingers against her mother’s shoulder to receive her attention. She would say something trivial and obvious, but her mother would still entertain her. She absorbed every phrase her daughter said as if each filled her with a tremendous joy and was the greatest thing ever spoken. Her mother had selected a black dress for her today with a large white ribbon tied around her midsection. Her hair had been combed back in two braids so that the tips were touching her shoulder blades. They were coming home late from a Christmas party at church.
Laughter and cheer filled the air as the sun started to set that hot humid summer day. Andrew looked for a place to just rest. People walked by with no cares in sight, giving a friendly smile as they strolled by, not knowing his story, not knowing why he was there on that mournful day. He lay his heavy head down and try to steal a minute of peace a minute of rest. More people walk by, and a tear came to his eye, not just from sadness, but gratefulness for being alive. He gathered up his few belongings to try to find a new spot when panic overcame him when he remembered what he forgot. He rushed back to get it and there it laid; a warn down old jacket, tattered and torn. It was not much to look at, but it still kept him warm. He sat back down just
“I’m not thankful for anything”, says Mark, “I’m mad I had to get up early, I don’t want all these people over, I hate thanksgiving!” Everyone just goes back to eating, Mark’s mother tries to talk to him. “Why are you being so moody? Why can’t you be joyful on the day of your family coming together? “Mom!”, says Mark, “why do all the uncles and cousins have to come over? Why can’t it just be me, you and grandma?” “Your grandma loves her children too honey say his mother, I’m sorry you’re in such an agitated mood.” Mark goes to his bedroom, he doesn’t even spend the rest of the day with the family, he just goes to his bedroom, slams his door and jumps in his bed. As Mark lay in his bed with his face smothered in his pillow, blankets over his head. He thinks about how aggravated he is. Maybe I just need a nap thinks Mark to himself, he closes his eyes and goes to
It was the first day of summer, Izaak was riding bike around the hood. It was a perfect summer day in Iowa, hot with a slight breeze. Izaak was riding his bike for almost 4 hours. He made alot of new friends, he was enjoying the new bike. Izaak finally went inside, was eating a good sack in the living room, Izaak was tired. Contemplating a nap, Whitney walks in, being loud with her boyfriend, honestly being the most annoying human being was her speacilty.
Addiction is the compulsive physical and psychological need for something. That controls peoples live. Having an addiction can invade every part of a person’s life. It may seem as a habit that’s people are used to thus believing that it can be remove easily with out any struggle, yet it’s more complicated. Its difficult for a person to live without what they believe they need. The film concentrates on drug addicts in Atlanta. Mostly junkies were using heroin and crack. There was one woman who took my attention. Judy a 52 year old addicted to crack. Her story touched me and made me realize how deep an addiction can over take a person. An addict will do what ever it takes to satisfy their hunger. It controls them to the point of leaving even the smallest necessities of life. Judy states that ‘’she would have nothing of eat at time in order to feed her addiction a sacrifice she makes” if see it as losing control losing a
Right now, a buzz is going through the hall in which all the seniors are waiting and they look like bees swarming in the hall. It’s becoming hot and we’re all getting impatient. Amber is more composed and enjoying the good times in the present. She is standing there happy but sad to be dispersing from the rest of her classmates. Ann, the smartest one is having a little fun but not really. Her feelings are that of a person who realizes she’s going to miss what she had, but wanting to get the ceremony over with because it’s taking too long. Standing in that room we are together and enjoying one last real time capturing a picture with each other. Amber’s mom is so proud of her daughter that she keeps talking and smiling and trying to part of every MOMent. Amber is thinking to herself that she wishes her mom weren’t there but she’s ‘happy inside because someone is cooing over’ her. As Ann is standing beside Amber she keeps getting these expressions that say, she likes being with her friends but, ‘what is taking so long? Can’t we get out of these dang robes, yet?’
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” As Henry Adams stated, and is the summary of the impervious bond between the characters Mitch and Morrie, in Tuesdays with Morrie. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) often referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease is a form of motor neuron diseases. It is a rare disorder in which the nerves that control muscular activity degenerate within the brain and spinal cord. What results is weakness and wasting away of the muscles. The cause is unknown. About one to two cases of ALS are diagnosed annually per 100,000 people in the US. (Lou) Sufferers will notice weakness in the hands and arms accompanied by wasting of the muscles (Motor). The weakness usually progresses to involve the muscles of respiration and swallowing leading to death in two to four years. When someone is diagnosed with such disorder, it turns their life in unknown directions, and you can either handle it positively and be strong and love through it, or let it waste your life away. In Mitch Albom’s Tuesday’s with Morrie the main character Morrie Schwartz is diagnosed with ALS, he doesn’t let it slow him down in his life; it has made him personally stronger, and gave those people around him a more positive attitude.