Clouded Judgement

I just finished the book Crank by Ellen Hopkins. The main character Kristina who mostly refers to herself as Bree went to her fathers house and was introduced to crystal meth or “crank”. Kristina, or Bree, began dating multiple boys. One boy, Brendan, raped her. Bree was broken the first night, but soon she seemed healed. Crank seemed to allow Kristina or Bree to not care until she found out she was pregnant. Her mind changed on what to do many times, Bree and Kristina each wanted to do something different. In the end Kristina made the decision to keep the baby, but Bree made the decision to leave.

The main character may have physically been Kristina, but there was an emotional struggle between the two personalities. It’s more than an emotional struggle it’s a conscience struggle. When Kristina got pregnant Bree was sailing through life not caring. Kristina made Bree face lifes consequences. Kristina made the commitment to keep the baby, but her addiction and Bree made her want to run away. Bree didn’t care that she had made the commitment and Bree took over.

In life often one thing will overshadow a commitment. Often in the world there is a point where people will stop caring about the most important things and something else will take over. Sometimes people will forget completely about their responsibilities. Bree was the thing that made Kristina forget all her responsibilities and just stop caring. To Kristina Bree took over, but Bree was the crank and crank was the distraction, that everybody has one way or another.