Crank By Ellen Hopkins: Critical Essay

The main character in the novel “Crank,” written by Ellen Hopkins, is a 16-year-old teenage girl named Kristina Georgia Snow. She use to be the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. On a trip to visit her deadbeat father, she meets a boy who introduces her to the monster: crank. What begins as a wild, ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul - her life. In this story even though it might not be intentional Kristina gives into a lot of people, therefore, giving them power over her. In the beginning when she went to her fathers she was her own person, knowing right from wrong, but as soon as she had that first high something in her switched. As soon as she had that high she let Adam, the boy who gave her her first line, do what he wanted with her without hesitating. Now the Kristina before the high would have never let that happen. Kristina might have been attracted to Adam before the high, but she would have never let him touch her in that type of way if it wasn't for the monster. The thing about Kristina and people having power over her …show more content…
Ultimately though, Kristina chose this path. She didn't have to go to her father for the summer and she didn't have to give into all those bad boys trying to “crank her up” Now she is stuck in a never ending hell that will repeat itself because Kristina will never change. She is always going to do for the bad boy, we will always need that high to get away from all the stress and she will always have the guilty couscous of knowing that only if she would have done things differently and never had snorted that first line or maybe even never went to her father's for the summer. In the back of her head, she will always know that she could have had so much more to her life. She could have had anything she wanted and now knowing that she can't it will haunt her to the