book response

The title of my book is Impulse. It is one of 7 or 6 books by the same author with the same genre. The author is Ellen Hopkins, the genre of this book can go under romance, and drama. It has many tragedies. The subject of the book is abusive family relationships

Connor is the first main character introduced. He’s a ladies man, but his relationship with his parents absolutely sucks, due to their lack of emotional communication and care . Vanessa is the the second main character. She is what people would call emo, she cuts cuts cuts away, she and her mom don’t get along so well since her mom is nutty. And tony is the third main character. He is gay, or at least that’s what he says. His parents both neglected him his dad left him and his mom and his mom paid him no attention. Even when he cried out to her she bitterly shot down his reason for crying and blamed him. Any who all of them are brought together under one roof. The mental institution. Their relationships changed constantly as they weave in and out of drama with themselves, their parents, and others like them , and weirdos not so much like them.

Ellen had all of them, I’m reading impulse and I haven’t read identical. Crank and glass are centered on the drug, love, and sex life of the main character Kristina who has 3 children. In fallout her children go one with their lives similar to hers after her transition to bad girl. Burned was about another girl who was sent away from her Mormon household for assault to her aunt’s house. They are all very similar, the one I’m reading now is most like fallout. In impulse the kids are neglected by their parents, specifically their druggy or cruel mothers and walking out fathers. The fallout is most like impulse of all of them because it also has a 3 person POV. This has 2 of one gender and 1 of another. The difference is fallout is a continuation of the lives of a druggie mother while impulse starts off with the whole drugs fixation. In fallout the 3 characters have problems like lies, drug use, sexual abuse, cheating, and illegal stuff or rebellion. In impulse each character has their own problem which links together by a suicide attempt at all 3 of them. Tony had drug use problems and father problem; in the book often we question his sexuality because he has a liking for Vanessa. Vanessa was into self mutilation and has a schizophrenic mom. Conner had problems with dating an older woman and competing for Vanessa’s attention. Patterns in the book usually include: drug use, religion, sex, rebellion, and false illusions of love. Her books also don’t usually have 100% happy endings. In burned someone lost their child, in crack someone got raped, and in glass someone got sent to prison. It is a reasonable idea that Ellen Hopkins wrote these books to appeal to a more pessimistic crowd since very few things is this book are optimistic. As I have gone on farther than before I realized that these three characters are all linked together. In fallout they are more distant. This is important because then it’s easier to make the connection between them all.

9. –purpose, character relationship combo-
Purpose: I’m sure that Ellen Hopkins’s purpose was to give readers a taste of the hard and real life. With many twist and turns in each one of her books she takes strips of real lives, real stories and combines it with the main characters common misfortune that she/he usually suffers. Most of her books have characters that practice at some point self hate and become liars and players. But by the end of each book the problem they had at first is blown up or destroyed completely. I think what she does by doing this is creates a way to compare her characters. I have just started a new book by her thanks to Karen Chavez . And so far my point in the book is not very far in but there are already factors of secrets. Hate, love, sex, and bad parents. Somehow in each book she also manages to incorporate those things into the plot as well as drugs.

In impulse for tony he hates his mom, dislikes his dad, and despises the man who raped him. For Vanessa she hates her mom to a certain extent and she hates herself for a point of time in the book. For Conner he hates a lot of people mainly his parents because they don’t care for him. His dad pretends to care and just only cares about grades, his mom only cares about the same with grades and all but also about sports and her expectations.

As far As love goes, tony loves Vanessa, Connor, and his closest friend Phillip. Vanessa and tony develop a special relationship. Vanessa thought she loved her ex boyfriend, but she didn’t. However she did start to fall for tony; however he and Conner also shared something special. Connor’s love situation was most complicated, didn’t love either of his parents and neither of them loved him. He was neglected so much that in the end of his challenge in mental camp he commits suicide after everyone receives their parent letter. His simply says we have standards; you follow them, get good grades and stay in shape. However his strange lust for older women was cause by the lack of care and compassion his mother showed him, and it causes him to commit suicide after he feels alone because Vanessa and tony have each other.

In the end the book shows how anything can effect someone’s feelings. And any small thing can push someone over the edge. However in Connors case it was no small thing, he felt unloved. All the people he wanted love from were unable to give it. It encourages everyone to be careful because you never know someone else’s situation