post 5

"Within the first four months of my relationship with G, I had lost forty pounds and weighed a pitiful ninety-six pounds. The stress of the physical and verbal abuse had taken a toll on my body and spirit. Life at our house was torture. It was common to see me with bruises up and down my body" (Steffans 87).

--I guess this could be the down fall of Karrine, but it s also the turning point in her life. G's beating her made her weak and made her strong. And when she conceived a child by G, she wants her life to be different.


Why when she gets a child she wants to change her life?
Is her own life not important anymore?

post 4

"My hips have swayed and popped on MTV while I danced on tabletops and poolside in some of your favorite videos"(Steffans 83).


This passage is funny to me, because I look at of a lot of videos and I have never seen the same girl in most of the videos I watched in the past. And the author makes the statement like that was the best thing in her life. This time the author is showing how she was in the spotlight to help plot.




Can video dancer's dance for a little kid? And if no, is video dancing appropriate?
Why did she give up dancing, when she had the spotlight and every video she was in?

post 3

"My mother always made me feel like less than a person. She despised the fact that I received constant praise and she was worthy of none. Before I was born, she was the center and now I had taken her shine. We were in competition from the day I arrived"(Steffans 58).


--I like the way how the author, once again, helps her plot by talking about her past and life experiences. And this passage kind of ask my question in my other post. I think Karrine, the author, was a mistake baby and wasn't planned. I guess her mom had a child so young made her spotlight real short, and she see her child getting all the praise good make a person jealous.

Is the dad jealous too?
How will this situation play out in the long run?

post 2

"I was born in 1978 on a hot, sticky late-August day on the twenty-eight-square-mile island of St. Thomas. My mother was an eighteen year old native. My father was fifty-six and lived on the island from 1976 to 1984"(Steffans 33).

--This passage is really stands out when reading it. When a reader read this particular passage they may have to read it twice. Because when you start reading it, you think yea her mom was a young parent, but then she said her dad was fifty six. So again she teaches something about life and tries to make the reader understand her situation and not be judgmental on her life.


Why is the age difference between her parents so far apart?
Was her mother force to have a baby?
Can a fifty five man have sex with a seventeen year old girl?

1st post for my book

"I was lying on the hard, cold floor in the bathroom of the famous Chinese bistro Mr. Chow in Beverly Hills. With my head next to the toilet, I was alone, in debt, with no friends and no hope. It had been a long, hard trip that led to this fall. Everything was designer-made, from my jewelry to my makeup to the clothes I wore—even the drugs I'd consumed. The next thing I knew, I was on the floor again".

--This passage came from chapter one. The author starts with a flashback about her life when she was on drugs. In my opinion, that is the cheesiest way to start a biography; maybe a fiction story, but not a non-fiction story. It's funny how she contrasts her nice life, but makes these stupid mistakes. So she is like she using an old cliche that every person has used at lease in his/her life; because a person has money doesn't make them a better or smart person, because they make the same mistakes. And I think the author pushes the reader to picture the character, so the reader know where she is coming from, instead of judging her right away.

Why start with this terrible point in her life?
How did she become this drug addicted and what is her destiny?
Who will help her of the bathroom floor or will she help herself?