CRANK

Crank. Honestly before I read this book I had no idea what crank even was.  It sounded like something that made you happy and made you want to enjoy life.  There has been quite a few time where I have said “IM CRANKED!” just because I thought it was another word for overly excited, or happy. Well in the book I have realized that’s what it is something that is overly exciting to do, something that you never want to stop. It’s a perfect title; no one wants to stop being overly excited and happy about life, and completely numb to everything that brings them down. Well that’s exactly what crank is something that makes you numb and invisible to everything, something that you don’t want to end.  When it does everything just hits you twice as hard. Crank is another word for the monster, cocaine.  Which fits this book extremely well because that’s exactly what it does makes you want to live the fast life, until it wears off and you have zero control of anything.

Free Choice

As of today teenagers don’t realize the concsiquences for their actions. They can either be positive or negative based on what the situation. Just like Kristina in the book Crank, she didn’t realize by snorting her first line of cocain she would be automatically addicted and her life would not be the same ever again. This is the one thing that bothers me that most is when people have no idea what they are getting  theirselves into. It can really be devestating. Just for the fact of knowing how much potiental that  certain person really has and they are throwing it all away by making idiotic choices that they think is a one time thing that they will never try again, until they cant seem to put it down. Drugs and alcohol is an on going issue around the world especially in teens due to try to be “cool” or in a certain click. It is heart wrenching to watch, Especially how Kristina (Bree) went down hill so fast, and she doesn’t know if she will ever be on track again.  As of last week I lost a friend in a traffic accident that involved alcohol. No one ever seen that coming because we tend to think that we are unbreakable. Well that definitly proved to me that, that isnt the case anymore. I just think that people really need to realize the consiquiences of their actions.