Summary Of One Good Punch By Rich Wallace

Three thousand, three hundred teens start smoking marijuana every single day (The Recovery Village 1), and fifty six percent of them will continue to smoke after highschool (NIDA 1). Teenage marijuana abuse has became a horrendous issue for many schools in the United States and is becoming more acceptable within the teen community. Only twenty one percent of students think marijuana poses a great risk, which is only half of the students that thought marijuana was a risk twenty years ago (NIDA 1). Clearly, there is an issue of teenage drug abuse, which Rich Wallace, the author of One Good Punch, decided to write about. Wallace wrote a book with the underlying issue of the potential risk of drug possession and use within teens and presents it as an issue that can ruin your life. This essay will cover how Wallace presented the social issue in One Good Punch and how the issue is embedded in today's society.

Marijuana abuse is the use of the marijuana frequently or in a habitual manner. Wallace applied the idea that marijuana could ruin your life then put it into a story as a lesson to those who read it. He presents the issue through the eyes of a high school, Michael Kerrigan, who is a very good kid. He’s never been in trouble in his life (Wallace). Plus, Michael is an overwhelmingly good athlete, and a team captain of the track team (Wallace 70). He also has a job already at the Scranton Observer (Wallace 3)as an editorial assistant and his life is going very good. Wallace uses Michael as an example of someone who has their life planned out for them, but mess up and screw their life up. Then Wallace uses Michael to present the social