Conner has the seemingly perfect life: he is handsome and rich, and he is a star athlete and excels in academics. Reading Group GuideĪ Reading Group Guide to Impulse by Ellen HopkinsĬonner, Vanessa, and Tony have all three landed in Aspen Springs, a psychiatric hospital. Now they have a second chance, and just maybe, with each other's help, they can find their way to a better life-but only if they're strong and can fight the demons that brought them here in the first place. They grabbed the blade, the bottle, the gun-and tried to end it all. In one instant each of these young people decided enough was enough. But dig a little deeper and find a boy who is in constant battle with his parents, his life, himself. Tony, after suffering a painful childhood, can only find peace through pills.Īnd Conner, outwardly, has the perfect life. Vanessa is beautiful and smart, but her secrets keep her answering the call of the blade. Three lives, three different paths to the same destination: Aspen Springs, a psychiatric hospital for those who have attempted the ultimate act-suicide. But if you happen to, you know things will never be the same. From the bestselling author of Crank, the story of three kids whose lives collide at a mental hospital after each attempts suicide.
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After studying at Phillips Academy, Exeter, Mass., he entered Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., but two years later transferred to Princeton, where he graduated in 1893. He was born in Indianapolis, Ind., July 29 1869. Newton Booth Tarkington was an American writer. Classics is republishing this novel now in a new edition complete with a biography of the author from “Encyclopædia Britannica” (1922). Other notable works by this author include: “Monsieur Beaucaire” (1900), “Penrod” (1914), and “The Turmoil” (1915). Among only three other novelists to have won the Pulitzer Prize more than once, Tarkington was one of the greatest authors of the 1910s and 1920s who helped usher in Indiana’s Golden Age of literature. Newton Booth Tarkington (1869–1946) was an American dramatist and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. “The Magnificent Ambersons” offers the reader a fantastic glimpse of a unique part of American history and is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Tarkington’s seminal work. The story continues exploring the rapid development of the Unites States through the eyes of the Ambersons, a declining aristocratic family living in Indianapolis during the final days of the Civil War. The second installment in Booth Tarkington’s “Growth Series”, “The Magnificent Ambersons” is a 1918 novel that won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1919. This theory proposes that there are two key areas at play when a person wants to end their own life: thwarted belongingness, where a person no longer feels connected to others, and perceived burdensomeness, where a person believes they are a burden to others and they would be better off without them. 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