Crank Themes

Just as it's certain that the sun will come up tomorrow morning, it's pretty much a given that teenagers are going to lie to their parents (not to mention a lot of other people). This is especially...

Crank, toot, the white stuff, glass, the monster—how many names can a drug have? When you're imprisoned by addiction, it doesn't seem to matter what meth's called as long as you get your hands on...

There's a lot to learn from Kristina's story, but one thing Hopkins definitely want you to take away from reading Crank is that doing drugs is stupid. It can eat your brain alive and make quitting...

Where there're drugs, there's lowered inhibitions, and where inhibitions are lowered, there's probably going to be sex. In Kristina's case in Crank, things get a little out of control when her conn...

To say that Kristina makes some bad decisions over the course of Crank is kind of an understatement. With one decision to try crank with Adam, she sets in motion a downward spiral of events that ne...

At the beginning of Crank, Kristina's your average high school student—quiet, an overachiever, not particularly interested in rocking the boat. Relationships? Forget about it. Breaking the rules?...

Being a teenager commonly brings a time of exploration with it, but when you're seventeen and heavily involved with the crank scene in a city, things tend to get kicked up a notch. While Kristina's...

Take one aspiring novelist with a selfish streak, toss in an ultra-stern stepfather, mix in a lesbian daughter, a rebellious middle child, an oblivious stepson, and throw them all together in the 1...

You'd be hard pressed to find a teenager who knows exactly who she is, and Kristina is no exception in Crank. With pressures from school, family, and herself assaulting her every day, the questions...

Kristina's drug use looms so large in Crank that we almost forget about another major problem that shapes her character: She's a neglected child. Abandoned by her father and pushed aside by her mom...