The Crystal Drop Quotes

Have you ever met someone who made an impact on you? Physically? Mentally? Emotionally? Throughout Megan and Ian’s journey, they have meaningful encounters with many different people, the conflicts they face and how they overcome them in the novel, “The Crystal Drop.” Several diverse run-ins in the novel consist of, the people of Napi’s World, the Survivalists, and Mitch and Sadie.
The first people Megan and Ian met were the people of ‘Napi’s World’. They met them at the visitor center of Head-Smashed-In-Buffalo Jump. Megan was ‘…pushed forward blindly stumbling down a sloping passage and down yet another flight of stairs.” (Hughes page 38) this shows how the people of Napi’s world were very aggressive towards Megan when she first met

They saw that there were still good people unlike Napi’s people and the survivalists. When first meeting Mitch and Sadie, Ian was watching them take out the bullet in the back of Megan’s arm so it would not get infected and so she would not get a disease from the open wound. Not knowing if Mitch and Sadie would be a threat to them they were terrified. When getting to know Mitch and Sadie, they were providing them with food, water, and shelter and rebuilt their health. This impacted them mentally, physically and emotionally because physically they had someone they could trust and that restored their health and giving them the comfort they could not receive. They were impacted mentally and emotionally because Mitch and Sadie became a parent figure to Megan and Ian because they did not have parents anymore to look after them. Having a parent figure took the stress away from Megan let her be her own age and not let her worry. Ian was impacted emotionally because he finally knew what it felt like to have someone he could bond with and have a relationship besides with Megan. Megan was challenged emotionally by having her brother say to her that “...[he] love[s] Mitch.” (page 158). This hurt Megan because she did not understand how he never said to her that to her but could say that about Mitch. Both of them were challenged when they had to leave them because they knew Mitch and Sadie could not provide for them any longer if they were to stay and the supplies would run out faster if there were all four of them in one house compared to two