If you were brought up in an environment of abuse and neglect within your family, how different would your life have turned out? If you were surrounded by a world of drugs would your conscience know right from wrong? The battle of nature versus nurture paves every persons life since being born and usually one takes control over another. We do not get to decide where we are born, what economical situation we live in, nor how our parents treat us. These factors affect your decisions and often predetermines the life you are to lead. This relates to the book Kaitlyn written by Kevin Lewis. In this book we follow an abusive family where nurture is lacking and therefore does not structure the main character, Kaitlyn 's life.
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According to the New Zealand drug foundation “New Zealanders as a population have some of the higher drug-use rates in the developed world, evidenced in the New Zealand Alcohol and Drug Use Survey, which reports that one in six (16.6%) New Zealanders aged 16–64 years had used drugs recreationally in the past year.” This shows that not only do we see Kaitlyn 's life involved with drugs but also we can relate this to our own society, drug use and children being brought up in neglected homes turning to substance abuse. An article from The Fix shows that children that suffer childhood trauma are more likely to suffer from addiction to substance abuse. This was significant to me in mirroring our own society within the book 's ideas. In the novel it made me realise how one decision can change your entire life. How would your life have played out if you hadn’t made that certain decision? In the story Angela finds out she lost custody over Christopher and he is being kept by social services. Angela is seen by the next door neighbour who asks what is wrong “it hurts, Rachel, it hurts all over” Angela says. In this moment of vulnerability she gives in to taking heroin in the next door neighbour 's apartment. “She could feel it. Floating. Lightness. Total bliss.” this showed me that drugs take people away from their reality and into a blissful transient state of mind that they will do anything to get to again. Angela then becomes addicted to this drug, this decision changing her life. Angela takes drugs from Rachel saying she will sell them but instead uses them to get to the state of euphoria. I think that in the world of drugs, what goes around comes around/ The “drug lord” Gary threatens to take Angela’s life for using the drugs she was meant to sell. Kaitlyn walks into the apartment at this time. Gary decides instead of taking Angela’s life he will use Kaitlyn as a drug
The book opens with …show more content…
According to the New Zealand drug foundation “New Zealanders as a population have some of the higher drug-use rates in the developed world, evidenced in the New Zealand Alcohol and Drug Use Survey, which reports that one in six (16.6%) New Zealanders aged 16–64 years had used drugs recreationally in the past year.” This shows that not only do we see Kaitlyn 's life involved with drugs but also we can relate this to our own society, drug use and children being brought up in neglected homes turning to substance abuse. An article from The Fix shows that children that suffer childhood trauma are more likely to suffer from addiction to substance abuse. This was significant to me in mirroring our own society within the book 's ideas. In the novel it made me realise how one decision can change your entire life. How would your life have played out if you hadn’t made that certain decision? In the story Angela finds out she lost custody over Christopher and he is being kept by social services. Angela is seen by the next door neighbour who asks what is wrong “it hurts, Rachel, it hurts all over” Angela says. In this moment of vulnerability she gives in to taking heroin in the next door neighbour 's apartment. “She could feel it. Floating. Lightness. Total bliss.” this showed me that drugs take people away from their reality and into a blissful transient state of mind that they will do anything to get to again. Angela then becomes addicted to this drug, this decision changing her life. Angela takes drugs from Rachel saying she will sell them but instead uses them to get to the state of euphoria. I think that in the world of drugs, what goes around comes around/ The “drug lord” Gary threatens to take Angela’s life for using the drugs she was meant to sell. Kaitlyn walks into the apartment at this time. Gary decides instead of taking Angela’s life he will use Kaitlyn as a drug