Journal #1: Candy

"If shes addicted... "He shrugged "She won't leave him--She can't. That's how it works." (Pg.148)

I chose this quote because it reminds me of our world in general. Theirs bad guys that will suck young girls into their business and make them feel good about themselves. They'll chose girls that they feel are struggling through life, so they can play around with their heads, and soon as you look at it, your gone into a seperate world, the world of a addict, who controls you. This connection shows me that not all people are dangerous and are monsters, but that their a person that wanted to be loved and  be looked at like their something. That they're being controlled and theirs nothing they can do about it. They prey on their dealers. Nobody can help them out because people are scared of them and if they did something to help, their will be dangerous feeback. Then again their are addicts out there that enjoy every bit of it, but they cant help themselves, it is stored in their brains. In my specific thought I believe Candy is in need of help because she is a girl that wants to be normal and have friends to love her and family to turn too. The drugs and Iggy are her make believe family that she cannot turn down because thats what gives her a home, food, money, everything. This connection also makes me understand that Joe, is in danger too, because he recieves feelings for Candy in ways that he cant control, and if he keeps on with it, he will eventually be in a deathful situation where he cannot get out of. Also Candy could possibly change Joe and make him part of you addiction, her world, her unsafe steps towards a darken whole in the earth, and have everything fall apart in a blink of an eye. All together Candy and Joe himself are in serious trouble and need to sort themselves out and get help or their will be a turn around in their lives.