Book Response Burned by Ellen Hopkins Essay

Burned written by Ellen Hopkins Is a great novel, and worth the time to read. Burned is about a teenage girl who was born and raised a Mormon Pattyn Von Stratten she is like roughly teenagers ripening up. Her family is extremely religious but in the same prospective her bugger off is a drunk and very abusive. Pattyn is tired of living the fairy tale of a Mormon lifestyle and ready to be energized with her own acquit spirit and way of life. Pattyn slowly starts to rebel against her family, school, church. While her breed spends almost of his time drunk its left up to her mother to take treat of the house hold and make sure everything is either in work outd running order to not upset Pattyns father. Pattyn begins rebelling even to a greater extent so than she thought it would go. She gets suspended from school and gets displace to digest with her auntie who she doesnt even know. This is the beginning of it all the worst mistake her father could pay off made and where P attyn makes decisions that are about to dislodge her life completely. Pattyn before long falls in love with a boy names Ethan who she is take a hop to be attached to.Pattyn doesnt see it but she is headed peck the complete wrong path and when all she wanted is attention shes button to get much more attention that she has intended to get. Ellen Hopkins is showing the themes of call and dysfunctional relationship, Pattyns father is an abusive drunk. I also think back Hopkins is showing the theme of growing up and finding your destiny and who you are, when Pattyn is sent to live with her aunt in Nevada and basically create a self-coloured new agenda for herself. Along with dysfunctional relationship, shes displaying what love is like, too, when the fictitious character falls in love. I think shes trying to prove that life doesnt always go as planned and you have to work yourself around the problems that you find in life, and bad decision could change your life forever. I beli eve the main purpose of the novel is to off out to teens. Ellen Hopkins expresses more different themes in her novel but cardinal main theme I believe is important is physiological.Pattyn goes through many different stages of growing up and expressing her true self. She becomes more social with guys and becomes more of a social butterfly then the Mormon nerd she utilize to be. Pattyn lashes out and rebels against her family and church in many different ways. When Pattyn is set to live with her aunt she meets a boy and which she ends up in a relationship. Pattyn starts growing up and learning more about her sexual self and starts dreaming about all the what ifs. Pattyn starts to experiment with her new boyfriend Ethan and when she goes back central office she shares the secret to her family that she is pregnant. Attempting to escape her fathers wrath, Pattyn and Ethan take off for California, unwitting that Trevor, a perfect Mormon child who loved Pattyn, has written down the cars license plate number. When her father finds out, he calls his road patrolman friend to track them down, to find them on an icy road.Ethan speeds up in attempt to lose the patrolman, but loses control of his car and crashes. Pattyn wakes up in the hospital, to find out that both Ethan and their baby are dead. Her father disowns her, unable to bear the recent events. Pattyn is left with a life changing decision in the end shoot and kill all those who caused her hurt and Ethan and their babys deaths, or move on? Pattyn states that if her father would rightful(prenominal) say he loved her she would spare him. Ellen Hopkins is an amazing author and has a unbelievable way of relating to teens. Burned is just one of her fabulous novels all having a great meaning to the lives of teens. If I was asked if I would recommend Ellen Hopkins novels I would say she has a great way of reach out to teens in her books and educating them in a non-boring way and I enjoy reading and feel forwar d to any novel she creates.