Book Response Burned by Ellen Hopkins Essay

Burned written by Ellen Hopkins Is a bulky invigorated, and worth the succession to read. Burned is about a teen girl who was born and raised a Mormon Pattyn Von Stratten she is worry most teenagers growing up. Her family is extremely religious but in the same prospective her sustain is a drunk and very abusive. Pattyn is tired of living the fairytale of a Mormon life storystyle and ready to be energized with her own free spirit and way of life. Pattyn slowly starts to rebel against her family, school, church. While her father spends most of his conviction drunk its left up to her mother to take care of the house hold and make sealed everything is all in arrant(a) running order to not upset Pattyns father. Pattyn begins rebelling even more than(prenominal) so than she thought it would go. She gets suspended from school and gets sent to resist with her aunt who she doesnt even know. This is the solution of it all the worst mistake her father could have made and where Patt yn makes decisions that are about to change her life completely. Pattyn soon falls in love with a boy names Ethan who she is bound to be affiliated to.Pattyn doesnt see it but she is headed down the complete wrong path and when all she wanted is oversight shes going to get much more attention that she has intended to get. Ellen Hopkins is showing the themes of abuse and impaired relationship, Pattyns father is an abusive drunk. I also think 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 building block new agenda for herself. Along with dysfunctional relationship, shes displaying what love is like, too, when the character falls in love. I think shes trying to prove that life doesnt always go as think and you have to work yourself around the problems that you find in life, and bad decision could change your life forever. I believe the main purpose of the novel is to m ake it out to teens. Ellen Hopkins expresses many unlike themes in her novel but one 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 therefore the Mormon nerd she used 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 screening home she shares the secret to her family that she is pregnant. Attempting to escape her fathers wrath, Pattyn and Ethan take off for California, unaware that Trevor, a perfect Mormon child who loved Pattyn, has written down the cars license plate number. When her father finds out, h e calls his Highway 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 some(prenominal) 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 pain and Ethan and their babys deaths, or move on? Pattyn states that if her father would just 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 looking transport to any novel she creates.