Theme /Moral/ Lesson

In my book, Kristina becomes a druggie, for the second time, this time worst then the first. Now finding that the drugs have better quality, how could she not get addicted again. Kristina doesn't seem to believe that, she claims she will stop before it gets out of hand. Now Kristina has ended up worse then she ever expected! No longer able to care for her baby while being high, and not able to give up the drugs, Kristina moves out of her home, and "on her own."
One of the lesson's I learned was not to judge a book by the cover. Normally when you here people say "Don't judge a book by it's cover," they are taking about saying mean things about people when you just met them. That's not really the case in this book. In this book, they are talking about not just assuming everything is alright, and that this person/ family is perfect, or they have a great like. Things may seem that way, but it usually isn't the way it seems. I think the author was aiming to teach readers to get to know people, and don't assume that somebody has it so easy, or anything like that.
The other lesson I learned was to maintain self respect, and always take care of your self. In the book Kristina completely falls apart, physically and mentally. Mentally Kristina can just no longer try to live a normal life and stay high. She starts to lose her normal maintality of thinking, all she can think of now is getting high, when and where she can do it. Physically she stops trying to hide the fact that she is an addict, everyone knows by now, why bother to hide it. When she moves into the apartment with her boyfriend, it looks like the home of a dealer. Considering that's what she and Trey no are, I suppose that is normal. I think Ellen Hopkins was trying to teach her readers to always have enough pride to take care of yourself. Also to care about your surroundings and the people who surround you.
The most obvious lesson is to make good choices. Think before you act, this lesson is in a lot of books, but this book especially broadcast that lessons. Kristina’s life is so dirastically changed when she makes bad choices for the first time at her dads in the book Crank. Even though it shows mostly in Crank it is also shown here. If she would have stuck with the choice to stay away from drugs, nothing in this book would have happened.
That's what I think Ellen Hopkins was trying to teach, or atleast that's what I learned!