Jared Ramos 806                                      Glass                                              11/13/13

                                                      by Ellen Hopkins

            Crystal meth, or as they say in the book Glass, "the monster," is the main theme called social justice. Kristina is the main character of the book that got hooked onto this one summer thinking that she could control the monster, and herself from craving the drugs. Kristina has another part of her called Bree, she only becomes Bree is the opposite of what Kristina is a smart girl has no sense of fashion. Crystal meth has brought Kristina and her friends far apart to the point where they cant be together.

            In the book Glass, by Ellen Hopkins, she explains how Kristina had a lot of friends but she couldn't trust them with her big secret and this secret that she was hiding from her friends just ruined her relationship with them. I say this because when reading this part of the books she is hinting that her friends aren't trust worthy of her secrets and one main thing that I read was that her friendships didn't last very long after the author explained why she couldn't tell her friends, and as a result of her being on "the Monster," she lost the ones closest to her because they thought of her as less of a person when knowing that she was addicted to doing drugs. My thoughts on this is that, losing your closest friends and losing the respect of your family members is not worth doing drugs at all and that because it just eats up your body and take a lot to stop your addiction for crystal meth.

            In conclusion I find that crystal meth destroys life and that people should try really hard to stay away from it if they haven't done drugs because all it takes is one time to mess up something nice and I think I can speak for a lot of people when I say you wouldn't want to throw your life away for a drug. One question I have been formulating is what do you think we could do to stop friends from ever trying drugs? Just think about it and you could self reflect meaning think about what you would do to stay away from drugs.