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Topic: Mood/Tone (Section 2 out of 3 of your text) Assignment:
 * Meeting Two: March 18th**

1. On your group's Wiki page, discuss the mood or tone of your book. What is the overriding emotion of this book? What examples back up your claim? The overriding emotion of this book is depression. Kristina comes back home from her father’s house. When she arrives, Adam calls her and tells her that they should be seeing other people since they live so far away. After hearing this, Kristina starts to believe that Adam was using her. She becomes depressed and tries to overcome this emotion by letting Bree, the other person inside her, take control of her. After Bree takes control, Kristina is able to meet two new characters. First, she meets Chase, who is a student that goes to her school. Kristina starts to like him because he offers her Crank. Also, Kristina is able to talk to Chase with ease because he listens to all the things that Kristina tells him. Brendan, a lifeguard that Kristina met, also helps Kristina to feel better. He takes her to many parties and offers her drugs. However, this breaks Kristina’s relationship with her family and her addiction towards Crank starts to reveal.

2. Person C should share his/her questions with the group, as well as post the questions on the group's Wiki page. 3. Person B should post the meeting summary on the group's Wiki page after class. 4. Person D should respond to the “Key Questions” during and/or after the meeting.

In our meeting today, we first discussed how Adam brought Kristina into her depression. We talked about how Chase and Brendan has contributed to Kristina’s relieve in her depression and also how her relationship with her family is falling apart. Finally, we discussed how Kristina is going to turn out to be. We all agreed that she is going to die at the end of the book if she keeps doing these bad things. I believe that today’s meeting was more productive then last week’s because we all knew what was going on in the book.
 * Jun Ryu - Person A and B **
 * Summary of the Meeting**


 * Johnny Buehler - Person C**
 * Crank Questions**

1. What could the tattoo given by Adam to Kristina possible symbolize? 2. How does Kristina cope with the depression of breaking up with Adam? 3. Do you think Kristina can keep control and not let her alter -ego take over? 4.How has crank affected Kristina's family life? 5. How do Chase affect the relationship Kristina has with her family?

1. The tattoo is going to be a constant reminder to Kristian about the feelings she has for Adam. Every time she looks at the tattoo she is going to trigger the emotions that she so deeply feels for him. 2. The main way Kristina decided to cope with her depression is by attaching herself to the new boys that she meets. She is trying to fill the void in her heart and overcome her emotions towards Adam. 3. Throughout the book we already see that Kristina and her alter-ego Bre are starting to mix. The line between when Kristina is herself or Bre is becoming very gray. It seems that she is slowly becoming the person that she is pretending to be. 4. Crank is preventing Kristina from spending time with her family. She leaves the house more and more to hang out with the boys that she flirts with constantly. The drug is creating a fine line that is separating her from her loved ones. 5. Chase is creating havoc in the household. Kristian's step father, Scott, sees them making out. He grounds Kristina and the two get into an argument. Their relations grows further apart everyday.
 * Patrick Greve - Person D **
 * Crank Question Answers**