go back to high school, when I discovered my favorite author. Ellen Hopkins is a New York Times bestselling author, who has written more than 25 books in the Young Adult/Adult genre from 1990 to now. Mrs. Hopkins gets her inspiration for storytelling from her daughter’s life struggle with drugs, family issues, and her intimate life. One novel caught my attention on my class summer reading list titled Crank, which is written by Hopkins. Soon after, I continued to read the remainder of the series consisting
“Because only by confronting your demons can you ever hope to conquer them” (Hopkins, 525). In Ellen Hopkins’, Identical, the idea of finding oneself, and facing the underlying issues we hold is a struggle through the entire novel. Hopkins is an American author who, in almost all of her novels, focuses on the uncomfortable, yet very real, issues in today’s world. Specifically, in her book Identical, she discusses the issues that surround a pair of twins, Raeanne and Kaeleigh. Raeanne is seen as the
In Ellen Hopkins, Tricks, five unrelated poets discover the world is not what it seems. Each of the poets goes through an array of hurdles through their lives. Eden, a naïve, young, religious girl falls into forbidden love with Andrew. She, who comes from a prestigious religious family, defies the rules of her parents and continues having relations with Andrew. Seth keeps a secret from his Father, Seth is gay. He not dare tell anyone about it, not even his mother because of her early, morose
“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame (Wilde).” Books are written to help the people who chose to read them, and to me they should have the right to choose the books they want to read. Even though some of the content may seem explicit, most people would agree that that is not the theme of the book. Authors chose to specifically put certain topics into their writing because they know what they want to show their audience. I believe Burned should
occasions, help save lives. Ellen Hopkins, a well-known young adult author, has written many books that have changed the readers paths in life; seeing what the real possibilities are. Many people disagree with her writing style, but she writes these novel so people can avoid and see the consequences of bad decisions. Ellen Hopkins was a baby when she was adopted by Valeria and Albert Wagner in Palm Springs, California. Valeria was 42 at the time and Albert was 72. Hopkins adoptive parents have had
GLASS written by ellen hopkins intermenes the real life struggles that teenagers face everyday, from love to drugs to destructive relationships. Ellen really hits home showing the life of a once 4.0 honors student Kristina; whose life easily got turned upside down from one toxic summer at her fathers that will show the darkest side possible of life. An estimated 12 percent of children in the United States live with a parent who is dependent on or abuses alcohol or other drugs. Based on data from
Browne-Gretzinger Student #: 5219704 February 3, 2017 Addiction: The World That Everyone Should See – Featuring Crank by Ellen Hopkins The novel Crank by Ellen Hopkins follows through the eyes of a 16-year-old girl named Kristina who simply refers to herself as “Bree”. The novel continues with the pathway of her life as it leads into substance misuse and addiction. Through her work, Hopkins creates a genuine look into the progression of an addict from a very personalized point of view. The style
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
Learning new words and reading new books excited me as a teen. It all started when I was in ninth grade. I wasn’t your typical fourteen-year old child reading children library books. I loved reading the young adult books. My favorite author was Ellen Hopkins. She wrote most of her novels about teens struggling with substance, abuse, feelings, sexuality, etc. I didn’t go through the problems like the teens in the books, but the stories made me think a whole new perspective in the teen world. I felt
The novel I chose this year was “Crank” BY Ellen Hopkins. This book is introduces many topics most don’t like to bring up to children now a days. It is banned in many locations. It is related to drugs, abusive language and sexual moments. The book is about Ellen Hopkins daughter’s drug abuse with crystal meth. In the book she experienced extremely hard moments. She has to try her best to overcome all the darkness in her life. It was very hard to discover an article that experienced similar problems
My book that I have chosen is “Perfect” by Ellen Hopkins. The main characters are Cara Sykes, Kendria Mathieson, Sean O’Connell, and Andre Kane III. Throughout the book it shows the different path each charters take for perfection. It also shows what the meaning of perfect means to each character. The book begins with Cara Sykes she has a twin brother Conner Sykes who has attempted suicide by shooting himself in the chest and was admitted to Aspen Springs because of their parents unrealistic expectations
Cara Sierra Skyes has a hard role in Perfect by Ellen Hopkins. Cara is in love with her boyfriend Sean, she describes him as fun, good-looking, adventurous, and a jock. Everyone expects the perfect girl to go out with the perfect guy. Caras mom has always taught her, appearances are everything. So, Cara held onto that. She is a pretty and popular cheerleader. Cara holds a special trait, she is actually really smart and has a scholarship lined up at Stanford. Problem is, Cara has a twin brother
CRANK written by Ellen Hopkins is a story about a young girl named Kristina and her journey of meeting the monster (crystal meth) and the aftermath of decisions while battling her addiction. Her life spirals out of control from experimenting with the drug with her father and first love, being raped by a boy who provided the drug to her, finding the love of her life while living the life of the monsters alter ego, Bree, and ultimately trying to control the monster when she finds out she is pregnant
cannot change it? Authors purposefully make readers ask those questions. Authors love to create complex characters, characters that go through change. In Ellen Hopkins’ book, Crank, is the perfect example. Ellen Hopkins writes from her own daughter's perspective, Kristina, on how “the monster” changed her own life and her family's life. Ellen Hopkin’s daughter, Kristina, starts off as a sweet and innocent girl with great academic achievement. She gets a court sentence to go see her father for a
and her life slowly starts to crumble around her. Ellen Hopkins own experience dealing with her daughter’s meth addiction influenced her theme of a life spiraling out of control shown through character, style and imagery in Glass. On March 26, 1955 Ellen Hopkins was born in Long Beach, California. She was adopted by an older couple, her father Albert was 72 and her mother Valerie, was 42 at the time. Always wanting to meet her birth parents, Ellen found her birth mother Toni Chandler in the year 2000
seeing that light at the end of the tunnel and might do just about anything to find a way out. Nearly every individual going through a hormonal change can understand the raging war that is taking place between the characters and their inner demons in Ellen Hopkins’s novel, Impulse. An inner demon can be defined as any internal burden that creates a conflict in one’s life. That being said, there are many demons that frequently visit the minds of the three main characters of Impulse: Conner, Tony, and
Drugs, sex, hormones, adolescence, and decisions, decisions; All of such characterize Ellen Hopkins’, Crank. In the attention-grabbing novel is a high school junior named Kristina; a girl who has never done anything other than spend time with her family and focus on receiving straight A’s on her report card. Other characters in the novel include Bree, Kristina’s wild alter ego, Adam, or “Buddy,” whom she meets while visiting her father, Brendan, Chase Wagner, her mother, father, and other friends
My dad's friends are doctors. my mom's friends are doctors, my dad's *friends'* friends are doctors. and all of their kids are in med school right now, planning to be doctors. My middle sister is planning to be a doctor, fourth year Johns Hopkins, pre-med, volunteering at a local hospital, studying for the MCAT's. And I had thought the youngest was safely on the track, a few years behind, a freshman in college, pre-med, taking Biology, Chemistry, studying all the damned time, going
The Theme of Hopkins' Sonnet, The Windhover "'The Windhover' is one of the most discussed, and it would seem least understood, poems of modern English literature." These opening words of a Hopkins' critic forewarn the reader of Hopkins' "The Windhover" that few critics agree on the meaning of this sonnet. Most critics do concur, however, that Hopkins' central theme is based on the paradoxical Christian principle of profit through sacrifice. Although most critics eventually focus on this pivotal
wind is a powerful force that changes with the emotions of Ellen and Paul. Sinclair describes the wind as two separate winds: "the wind in flight, and the wind that pursue[s]" (Atwood/Weaver, 74). Like the wind in flight which cannot escape the wind that pursues it, Ellen cannot escape her isolation. The wind in flight always returns to "quake among the feeble eaves, as if in all this dust-mad wilderness it knew no other sanctuary" (74). Ellen is also forced to seek refuge within her small home, which