Crack and the Box
In the essay of “Crack and the Box,” the author indicates and tries to give evidence that there is a relationship between drug addiction and an addiction to watching television. I believe that the author tries to use very weak personal opinion to persuade the reader to see this relationship as he does. However, I do not believe that there is a relationship between the two.
Throughout this essay the author lacks an extreme amount of facts, statistics, and creditability to back up his point of view. He never states in the essay a study showing the relationship between the two. The evidence provided was his personal life work, which could have been used as facts if the reply was more than “it makes me feel good.” The only evidence that he tries to use in this essay is the use of emotion for the reader to feel somewhat charismatic for the junkie addicted to crack, trying to beg for a dollar just to get another fix.
I believe that the television does not influence people to use or sell drugs, but ones’ curiosity to experience the world in a different way than everyone else. I also believe that it has to deal with the environment that the individual was raised in, not television. Many times people tend to do what they know, what’s familiar to them. So therefore, if drugs are what they know than that is what they may do.
I being raised in a generation that watches television in the morning, throughout the week, and on weekends, have not been influenced by the television to use drugs. My parents did their job raising me, regulating the amount of television I watched, and also explain the difference between fantasy and reality that I seen on “the box.” Because of their time, teaching, and dedication in my life, I am now a young adult in college, off the streets, and not strung out on crack, cocaine, or heroin. Therefore, I disagree with the author of this essay when he says “there is a relationship between drug addictions and watching television.”
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