"Crank" Question 5

            Finally finish reading this kind of thick book! The book, "Crank" has a very deep meaning base on family's problem. The main character, Kristina, is a perfect girl both at school and family. She is quiet, talent, and friendly to people; however, her parents got divorced when she was still little. Therefore, she has problems that deal with her family. At the beginning of the book, Kritina claimed that at the beginning, she thought her father betrayed her mother, so she started to hate on him. By the time pass on, she found out that her mom is not as nice as she thought she is, and started to hate on her and does not like the way she is. Thus after she has a job, she moves out and lives by herself, until she marries to Adam. By the time she moves out, she does not have a good contact with her parents.
           After Kritina knows she is pregnant, she was trying to hide the fact and not to tell anyone, not even her husband. The reason why is that she does not want to distract him from his job, and also she was thinking if she should tell her parents. Once she does not feel well because she was pregnant for six months, and Adam was driving her home from a party. While Adam was driving, he told Kritina that she should tell her parents about the baby, and also fix the relationship:

"He suggested, Maybe you should talk to your mom"(P501)

            Then Kristina replied:

"What was he thinking? How could i talk to her? We hadn't really talked in years. What would I tell her now?" (P502)

         From their conversation, I can tell that Kristina was not willing to tell her parents that she is pregnant, because she felt strange to how selfish they actually are. Adam knows Kristina is just scared  to talk to her parents, so he presses the number to her parents, and give the phone to her after connected it. Her parents feel so surprise and happy after Kristina told them she is pregnant. And they started building up their relationship because of the baby.
         So I think the writer expresses the ideas of family issue by writing this book. Sometimes things just happen, and we cannot stop them. Instead of complaining whose fault is it, we should rather look forward, and find out the solutions for it. Like in Kristina's case, if Adam did not make the phone call for her, she would not know it was a misunderstanding betwwen her and her parents, and she would not be able to know the truth. It is glad that "Crank" has some meaningful lessons to share with the readers.