Journal #7 (senior year)

"How I came home
no longer
Kristina Georgia
Snow, gifted high
school junior, total
dweeb, and
perfect
daughter, but
instead a stranger
who called herself Bree.
How, no matter
how hard
Kristina
fought her, Bree
was stronger, brighter,
better equipped to deal
with a world where
every thing moved at light
speed, everyone mired
in ego. Where “everyday”
became
another word
for making love with
the monster."

In the book Glass by Ellen Hopkins, Kristina is a drug addicted teen who has created an "alter ego" of sorts for herself when she is on drugs. As you can see from the quote above, "Bree" is stronger and braver than Kristina could ever be, and I think that is part of the reason why Kristina keeps taking the drug. She likes how powerful she can become when Bree takes over.
This book is not only a well told story from a unique perspective and writing style, but it also gives great insight to why addicts do and say the things that they do and say while under the influence. It has a lot to do with the fact that the drug gives them confidence that they would have never had otherwise. Sometimes this confidence is a good thing, but in most of the situations Kristina/Bree encounter, her confidence gets her into even more trouble down the road.