I got interested in this book because getting addicted to crack cocaine is something that would never cross my mind as something that would take part in my life. This story starts off with this boy named Gordie, and he reminds the reader of some of the good memories of him and his brother when they were younger. Soon enouph, he break out into present happenings, and informs us about his life and his brother. Gordie's brother Chase, asked his dad one day if he could have some money to go buy some unbleached Egyptain cotten. Confused, his dad and him went to get it, and later that night Chase had done something terrible. Chase had put his neighbor into the hospital because he hit him in the head with a bottle. Chase had been arrested before, and finally we find out that he is a serious crystal methamphetamine user.
Gordie has to deal with not knowing whether his brother is safe, or when he will come home. Most of the time he comes home he is "hyped up, pupils flickering in his head like a pinball machine, skin yellow-gray, and sores festering all over his face." Gordie had described him as being so thin that he could break. Chase would always be going out and lying to his parents who were worried sick, and coming home with the police beacause he had been found on the side of the road or something of that sort. The parents had given Chase way too many changes, and were somewhat of pushovers in the beginning. Teachers, freinds and family gave him every oppertunity to redeam himself, but he ended up screwing it up again. Gordie is emberassed to have people such as the girl he has a crsuh on name Holly over because he is afraid his brother will come home high, and scare them off while trying to steal whatever he can to sell for money for the drugs. Gordies mom and dad don't have money anymore beause they litereally have spent it all on Chase, with bailing him out of jail countless times, and getting tricked in to giving money for things when he only spent it on drugs.
My personal outlook on the book is that Gordie is taking is better than I would be. Seeing my sibling tearing his life apart, and knowing that he is a drug addict, I dont know how I would deal with it, I would probably need counseling. This book reminds me of that show on MTV about the drug addicts, and honestly it is a depressing show to watch these wonderful people turn into monsters because of an nasty addcition. It changes there whole personality and willingness to live life.
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