Blog Post #13: Theme about the book GLASS by Ellen Hopkins

In the book Glass, by Ellen Hopkins, the main character Kristina or otherwise known as her alter ego, Bree, is a girl in high school that is just learning how to be sober...at least in the beginning. Throughout the book the monster grabs hold of her once again and she starts going down the wrong path...once again. She starts to visit her old friend Robyn, who is the sister of Kristina's once best friend, Trent. She then meets Trey, the guy who is giving Robyn all the meth, crystal, and glass. Bree takes over and she then starts dating Trey, who she puts all her trust in. I don't want to give to much away but she soon ends up in a really bad situation and she transforms into a totally new person, the opposite from Kristina.

In this book, Kristina gets easily influenced and takes the wrong turn and heads down a bad path. I think the message Ellen Hopkins wants to send out from this book is that you only have one life and you shouldn't waste it. I beileve she wants us to understand how hard life gets when you don't do the right thing, not saying you shouldn't just let loose and have fun sometimes, but you should know how far you can go til' you reach the edge. In the book Bree takes over Kristina and in this book she has to learn how to take care of her baby, but because she is always high and on drugs or smoking, she is a very unfit mother and she soon ends up in some trouble that you can hardly ever fix.

One thing I think Ellen Hopkins really stresses in this book is that when you make the wrong choices, there will be consequences. Which is exactly what happens in this book. Kristina loses her own self and she soon gets kicked out of her house, and much worse. I think one way Hopkins really shows how bad choices has consequences is how she lets the main character sort of...get away with whatever they did for a few times until they caught, so you don't really see it coming, so it makes it a good read.

In a way I also think Hopkins is spreading a message to teens telling them, this is what happens when you use drugs, or this is what happens when you are careless about things like sex. And in a way, I think she is trying to kinda scare the readers just to teach them a lesson. When I read the book I definetely learned the lesson, I really understood things like that drugs isn't a joke. I learned that doing things that you know is wrong will eventually come back to get you. I also learned from this book, that living life to the fullest, isn't what it really means. When you think of that phrase, you sort of think about trying out everything just for the sake of doing it, but after reading this book I learned it actually meant that you only have one life, so don't mess it up, live your life, enjoy everything that comes along, but don't ruin it.