I've never read anything like this before and I am hooked.
The tale is disturbingly beautiful, emotionally jarring, and elaborately constructed. She's able to construct a linear narrative out of a series of concrete poems where readers become entangled in all of Kristina'a dilemmas. Readers can't help sympathizing with her regardless of all of the messed up choices she's made.Īs with the first book, I was mesmerized at Hopkins' narrative. The story is sad she becomes embroiled in dealing meth and and contemplates prostitution. Juggling several "boyfriends" at a time, Kristina recognizes that what she's doing in wrong, but is reactive as opposed to being proactive in terms of her addiction.
After being kicked out of her house and denied access to her son, she finds herself at the mercy of the monster. In this follow-up to Kristina's sordid tale, she continues to chronicle her life with the monster (crystal meth). Discussions of sexuality are among the most frequently challenged throughout all of literary history, often more heavily censored than explicit violence, at least in Western literature and media.Īlthough sex in literature has been historically a subject of controversy, the now-familiar social idea of sex and sexual language as taboo and vulgar did not truly arrive until the Victorian Era of the 19th century, which impacted the United States along with the United Kingdom.After I finished Crank, I practically sped my way to Barnes and Noble go get this book, the second in the series.
Many of the passages in Glass that the Whittier Middle School parent complainant found inappropriate for students were sexual in nature, and this is completely congruous with the history of censorship. The emergence of this type of censorship mainly began with the development of the printing press in the 16th century, where information could be distributed more easily and more than just the ruling elite could write and publish ideas. Though the word “censorship” has a complicated array of legal, cultural, and technical meanings, it is generally thought of to mean any action that limits free expression across all media, intercepting either before publication (regulations by publishers or governments) or after publication (bannings and challengings).
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