Jenna Book Response English 12 – Kalin Burned written by Ellen Hopkins Is a great novel‚ and worth the time to read. Burned is about a teen girl who was born and raised a Mormon; Pattyn Von Stratten she is like most teenagers growing up. Her family is extremely religious but in the same prospective her father is a drunk and very abusive. Pattyn is tired of living the fairytale of a Mormon lifestyle and ready to be energized with her own free spirit and way of life. Pattyn slowly starts to
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IDENTICAL: Plot summary Raeanne and Kaeleigh Gardella are the teenage daughters of two successful parents: their father‚ Raymond‚ is a district-court judge and their mother‚ Kay‚ is a successful woman politician. While Kaeleigh acts as a typical school student that is involved in a school play‚ her identical twin sister‚ Raeanne‚ is the opposite. Raeanne spends most of her free time with her drug dealer‚ smoking pot‚ drinking and being extremely promiscuous. At home‚ both girls drink their father’s
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The book‚ Glass‚ by Ellen Hopkins‚ is a very interesting read for any reader who loves drama! The protagonist in Glass is a character named Kristina‚ and Kristina has some problems in her life. Between money problems‚ her new baby‚ Hunter‚ her parents’ divorce problems‚ and her weird and crazy alter ego‚ Bree‚ Kristina’s head is left spinning‚ and she’s looking for where to turn. On top of all that‚ she has decided to start again on a new drug‚ one that she’s used before‚ and the end results were
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A time in which I have read in the QUEST form was when reading the novel Crank by Ellen Hopkins. The novel is depicted by a 17 year old girl named Kristina whose entire life is destroyed by “the monster”. Her downhill spiral began when she took a summer trip to visit her father‚ (whom she soon discovers is playing with the monster). Before
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! The Fallout 47.0167 Norse‚ 6.9833 English 23 October‚ 2245‚ Lausanne‚ Switzerland Dear reader‚ I’m fairly certain this is my last entry‚ as well as my last day on this planet. I must hope for your sake that the world has found its way back. I write in Commontone because before the Amplus Pax Pact made among the remaining countries of the world‚ it was the most used language. There is much to tell you‚ or rather much for you to read. The High Chancellor has the FreePeace surrounding my
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issues presented but the one issue that is shown in the novel that I feel is presented in a realistic way is the drug abuse and violence aspect in the novel‚ Addiction is a very common problem for teenagers today‚ and in this novel written by Ellen Hopkins she tells us the story of a young girl called Kristina Snow spoken in a mother’s perspective of being faced with a young adolescents who got lost in the world of drugs and eventually ended up losing herself.This issue is presented in a realistic
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for survival. In most recent events my team and I have been tested to the fullest max of survival for the fittest and have been forced to make strong decisions that test our minds‚ morality‚ values‚ and ethics as a human being. We are trapped in a fallout shelter and it is not safe for us to leave. Therefore‚ we are trapped in this shelter for at least six months. Luckily‚ we do have enough food‚ water‚ and other facilities to help our group during this time. However‚ we are still faced with a very
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following primary sources. In the poster “The Family Fallout Shelter” from This poster we could see a women holding a booklet of how to build a shelter while there is a men holding bricks and a seems to be making the shelter. From these picture we could assume that they believed that men were the ones that were supposed to do all of the hard work. We could assume that they believed that women were too week and they could not do hard labor like making a fallout shelter. We also see how the women was holding
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The renowned author Ellen Hopkins never disappoints with her unique novels. Identical follows the lives of sixteen year old twins who battle their oncoming demons everyday. Kaeleigh is the perfect student and the perfect child. Yet ever since she was nine‚ her corrupt father has sexually abused her because of the absence of his wife‚ who is away campaigning for congress. Raeanne doesn’t want to come second in her father’s eyes so she turns to drugs and sex to fill the void in her heart. This novel
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was a teenager (“Ellen DeGeneres”‚ U*X*L). After the divorce‚ Degeneres and her mother moved to Atlanta. There‚ DeGeneres found her mother getting sadder and sadder. So she turned to comedy in trying to cheer her mother up (“Ellen DeGeneres”‚ U*X*L). As DeGeneres grew older‚ she has waited tables‚ sold vacuum cleaners‚ worked as a legal secretary‚ and even painted houses (“Ellen DeGeneres”‚ Newsmakers.) DeGeneres wanted to be a veterinarian‚ but she was “not book smart” (“Ellen DeGeneres”‚ U*X*L)
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