Crank Reflection

For this reflection piece, I will be discussing the novel Crank written by Ellen Hopkins within this novel you follow a young girl named Kristina and her story through addiction through her perspective in a series of diary-like entries. This novel has what I believe to be a few main characteristics of it that allow the story to flush out in ways that are often difficult. What I think contributes to the novel an unique personally that is often not seen in mainstream novels today is the writing style and format of the novel it’s self, the novel also brings a character that you can follow as they go through their journey of life and its complications bringing in real elements that provoke thoughts that further engage the reader, and the books

Even the first few pages of the intro started to shape some excellent foreshadowing that became even more powerful as the novel progressed and the story of Kristina and her battle with addiction became more evident and her realization of first the spiral her life was going down, along with how the “beast” was fun at the start but the end was certainly not how she expected or wanted it to be. I was not aware how much my perspective of how a book should be written was and how that biased perspective took away a lot while reading this novel and how by pushing it to the side for a while allowed me to understand not only the writing style and format style better but, lead me to enjoy it by the end of the

Ellen starts off by saying that this story is loosely based on true event’s which is evident in some parts in which the characters would react like a person would versus the other troupes that often get put into novels. Due to this, there is a more sense of reality while reading through the life and challenges that arrive with Kristina’s story. Kristina when is introduced to us the reader’s Kristina herself is already going through many doubts to me it read that she did not have something that she herself thought was disguisable that made her own person. Causing her to have this other person that has qualities that she thought were good the name of this new person was Bree. Due, to the fact that this novel was written in a dairy type of way that looks from Kristina/Bree’s perspective I was able to see the transaction that was occurring to her life as the pages went on and the reality of not everything has a happy ending. In terms of novels this is the first book that I have read that had an ending like that and was not in a dystopia setting for me that was a bit of shocking that a book with such reality to it not only was so widely known but it was actually had things in it I would never have considered on a regular bases such as having a parent that would not only allow but encourage behavior that can lead to addictive habits.