Pain In Purdy By Smack's Pain

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This book is the type that throws curve balls out of the blue. It makes the readers’ jaw drop in shock of the event that just took place. Since Mia died in a tragic DUI accident, everything took a turn for the worst in the life of Lexi and the Farraday family. Lexi, who was the best friend of Mia and dating Zach, the twin brother, was behind the wheel the time of the brutal accident. Jude, the mother of Mia, felt the urge to seek justice. She had only antipathy and wanted revenge. With money and strong lawyers supporting Jude, Lexi received the worst punishment. “I sentence you to sixty-five months in the women’s correction facility in Purdy” (Hannah 205). When the judge said that, Jude still felt no compassion, and still none when she found out Lexi was pregnant. Lexi offered the idea of adoption to Zach, but Zach wanted to raise the baby on his own. …show more content…
Why did Lexi buy the drugs in jail all she thought about is how she did not want to be like her mom, and knew it would cause more time in that despised place? To answer my own question, I believe she just felt so much pain where she got to the point that she was desperate for it to all go away. Smack is what all the prisoners called the drug supplier, named appropriately. Smack could see the pain in Lexi, which is why she went up to her and said, “I can make your pain go away” (Hannah 236). The author wrote the pain of Lexi as unbearable. I think Lexi just got to thinking about how she lost a boy she lost, she is where anyone wouldn’t want to be, she let herself go where she swore she wouldn’t, she killed her best friend, she had a child who she wouldn’t know, and her child wouldn’t know her either. All of these things seemed like the ways of her mother. The day she bought the drugs was the day of the anniversary of the day she killed her best friend. I think she took the drugs because all of the mistakes she made starting tallying up in her head and she needed to make it go

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