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Impulse By: Ellen Hopkins

Critic Reviews "A fast, jagged, hypnotic read."- Kirkus review

 " By book's, readers may well feel the effects of each protaganists final choice"-Publishers Weekly

 "Mature fans of the verse format will devour this hefty problem novel"-School Library ​ I chose this picture because it is the title of the book. this picture makes the book look maybe bloody. i thought this picture was significant to the story because there is blood in the book. The blood is from Venessa who tries to cut herself and commit suicide. The second is Carter who tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the heart. and third is Tony who actually popped pills and threw up blood.

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​ ​ I chose this video because it is the trailer of the book. The video explains the story very well. The book is about suicide and how three kids lives are affected and how they trycommit suicide.But, they all meet at a Pschological clinic where they get help for there problems. Aspen Springs is the name of the Clinic. The three kids names are Venessa,Tony, and Carter. It also explains how depressed each one of them felt. They all felt like they weren't important and they didn"t see a purpose in life. The single edged razor blade is what Venessa uses to make herself feel better. She tried to commit suicide by cutting really deep but her grandma walked in on her bleeding out and her grandma was a nurse so she saved her. Even after Venessa went to Aspen Springs she still found something to cut herself with. Like a paperclip and a staple. But the main thing she used was the razor blade.

MEMORABLE PASSAGES

1-​ Act on your impulse, swallow the bottle, cut a little deeper, put the gun to your chest 2-​ Sometimes you're traveling a highway, the only road you have ever known, and wham! A semi comes from nowhere and rolls right over you 3.-Wish you could turn off the questions, turn off the voices, turn off all sound. Pray you could somehow stop the uncertainty, somehow stop the laothing, somehow stop the pain.

1. The significance of the first passage was what the whole book was about. Swallow the bottle was when Tony tried to commit suicide by swallowing a whole bottle of Valium and took it with a fifth of Jack Daniels. The cut a little deeper part was about Venessa, she cut herself to relieve herself. But, one day she tried to cut a little deeper. And the last part was about Conner, who tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the chest. He was going to shoot himself in the head, but he had a broken heart. 2. The second passage is about what happened to the three kids. What the passage means is everything seems to be going well and out of nowhere something screws it up. With Tony, his life was good until he started doing heroin. With Venessa it was fine, until her mom started popping anti- depressant pills which made Venessa start cutting herself. And with Conner, he had it all, until he started having affairs with one of his teachers and got caught. 3. The third passage is about how other people affect anyones life in general. Turn off the questions, turn off the voices, turn off all sound means that people do contribute to other people commiting suicide and if you could just make people stop talkin then you might not be in the position your in. Pray you could somehow stop the uncertainty, somehow stop the loathing, somehow stop the pain is kind of the sentence before it. People do cause pain to other people mentally. And thats what happenss to the main characters of the book. People affect the lives of Venessa, Tony, and Conner.