Crank book club post

Crank by Ellen Hopkins is a good book. It is written in poetic structure, wich has its ups and downs. In the book there is a lot of complicated emotion, between Kristina and her other personality Bree.

The poetic structure in Crank is intresting. At first it reads a little choppy, but than you can get settled in and it starts to be a advantage. Ellen Hopkins makes many creative shapes with her poetic structure. There is also a recurring poetic structure theme in the book. Where there is a line of text and than a word at the end of it. Like this:
"there was a
whole lot
                             more

to the story,
of course.
But I'd never
told her
                        secrets,"   page 234
She has this structure so much because what she is doing is isolating that one word and making it stand out more than the others. This must be the poetic structure in 30% of the book. It's used so much because it has a simple purpose, (to isolate on word and make it stand out), and it has simple poetic structure, which is what Hopkins does for most of the book. There are also lots of shapes of text throughout the book, but this theme is more important because it is so popular in the book.


Kristina, or Bree have a lot of inner conflicts in the book. She struggles with drug addiction (the monster), boy problems, family problems, normal teenage problems, and most importantly her second personality: Bree. The two most important are her drug addiction, and Bree. They go hand in hand, the drugs fuel Bree, and Bree fuels the drugs. They are a endless circle of death. When Kristina went to her dads house, she showed Bree to Adam. Bree had always been there, but she had never emerged. At the beginning of the trip Kristina and Bree were the same person, but sense Bree was the one with Adam, she was the one who got hooked on drugs. This made Bree spiral out of control, and become much worse than Kristina. Once Bree was hooked on drugs, Kristina got hooked on Bree.

One of the main conflicts with this book as a book is, in some places it has gotten banned. The book got banned because it has some heavy topics that authority figures may have a problem with their kids reading.