Kristina gets caught hitchhiking by a cop and goes to juvenile hall, where she gets a direct connection to a meth lab in Mexico through an inmate. However, she does end up having sex with him later in the novel. Chase says no, wanting to wait until she had healed from her rape. Chase comes over and she tells him about Brendan before trying to persuade him to have sex with her. Soon though she abandons her letter and calls Chase to come over while her parents are out. Afterwards, Brendan takes her home and makes her pay for the drugs.Īt home Kristina, still high and shaken up from the rape, writes a letter to Adam telling him she was raped. When she says no, he becomes violent, claiming that he has 'waited weeks,' so she should 'put up and shut up.' : 341 He then starts ripping her clothes off and rapes her. Brendan drives them both out into the woods, where they get high together, and he starts to take off her clothes. Kristina goes to see the antagonist Brendan, asking for more crank. Chase and Kristina begin to get closer to one another, and they begin dating, though not exclusively. In Reno, Kristina, now calling herself Bree, meets the characters Brendan and Chase at a water-park, and they exchange numbers. When the three weeks are over, Kristina goes back to Reno, Nevada, : 191 where her mother's house is. Kristina starts a relationship with Adam, but feels guilty about Lince.

An antagonist, Lince, Adam's girlfriend, sees him comforting Kristina and jumps off of a balcony in a suicide attempt. : 85 She is attacked by three men, but before anything can happen to her she is saved by Adam. Adam convinces Kristina to try crank ( methamphetamine), or 'the monster,' but Kristina runs away the first time she tries it. Kristina meets a boy named Adam in Albuquerque, where she is staying with her father. Her father is rarely home, leaving her a lot of time alone. She is a straight-A honor roll student and decides to visit her father for three weeks. Plot Ĭrank takes place the summer before and during the protagonist Kristina's junior year of high school. The book is required reading in 'many high schools, as well as many drug and drug court programs.' However, the book has been banned in many locations due to complaints that the book's depictions of drug use, adult language, and sexual themes are inappropriate for some readers. It is based loosely on the real life addictions of the author's daughter to crystal meth. Crank is a novel by Ellen Hopkins published in 2004.

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