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    A Study Guide for Ellen Hopkins's "Crank"
    A Study Guide for Ellen Hopkins's "Crank"
    A Study Guide for Ellen Hopkins's "Crank"
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    A Study Guide for Ellen Hopkins's "Crank"

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    A Study Guide for Ellen Hopkins's "Crank", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMay 15, 2018
    ISBN9781410393319
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      A Study Guide for Ellen Hopkins's "Crank" - Gale

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      Crank

      Ellen Hopkins

      2004

      Introduction

      Crank is a best-selling work of young-adult fiction written by Ellen Hopkins and published in 2004. A powerful cautionary tale of addiction and self-destructive decisions, the novel attempts to undermine the widespread fallacy of teenage invulnerability through the fictionalized narrative of a Nevada teen, Kristina, and her disastrous flirtation with the drug methamphetamine, the monster. Although the novel is categorized as a work of fiction, Crank was cobbled together by Hopkins from numerous real-life anecdotes, in particular, the tragic dependency of her own daughter upon amphetamines. The novel won numerous literary accolades, including a 2005 Charlotte Award, and is assigned as required reading in many school districts and addiction recovery programs across the nation.

      The unique power and horror of the novel reside not only in its subject matter but also in its visceral first-person address and striking, nontraditional composition. The text is divided into several hundred powerful poetic vignettes of varied and imaginative structure, each providing an intimate window into the narrator's increasingly tortured psyche. As a result, readers experience Kristina's sensations with undiluted intensity. The narrator neither offers apology nor seeks validation in recounting her grueling descent into addiction and, through the pointed and unnerving use of second-person address, seeks to draw the audience into her narrative. In its scathing honesty and striking presentation, Crank emerges as a work of singular power and pathos for both adult and young-adult readers.

      Author Biography

      Hopkins was born in Long Beach, California, on March 26, 1955. Although she would later reconnect with her birth mother and attempt to do the same with her father, Hopkins was adopted at birth by loving foster parents Albert and Valeria Wagner, a couple of advanced years and considerable means. Hopkins spent much of her early childhood in the affluent neighborhood of Palm Springs, California, where she socialized with the children of contemporary movie stars and sports icons. She credits her adoptive parents with instilling in her a foundation of moral decency, an ironclad work ethic, and an early love of creativity and literature.

      As a young teenager, Hopkins moved with her parents to the suburbs of Santa Barbara, where she began to display considerable academic talents and a flare for composition, earning high school awards for her poetry and creative writing submissions. Upon her graduation from secondary education in 1973, the promising student enrolled in journalism courses at nearby Crafton Hills College and the University of California, Santa Barbara. In preparation for marriage and motherhood, however, Hopkins discontinued her higher education to make a home with her first husband and raise her two children, Jason and Kristal. Immediately following the birth of their second child, Hopkins's first husband abandoned his family to live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he would die, some years later, of ailments related to his worsening alcoholism.

      Hopkins's second serious relationship proved as ill-fated

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