I chose a song by Amy Winehouse called Rehab. Basically
throughout the songs she sings about people wanting her to go to rehab but she
makes excuses saying she doesn’t have the time and her father thinks she’s
fine. Amy Winehouse in a way avoids trying to get help from anyone and going to
the rehabilitation center. She then sings about how she never wants to drink
again and how she just was using alcohol to fill the void she has basically
using it as a “friend”. This relates to
Jimmy and how he doesn’t try to reach out for help when he’s doing drugs in
Riverside. Jimmy uses drugs to receive happiness. While Jimmy is in Riverside
his parents happen to visit him. The time he spends with his parents he
promises to go to GSL but he eventually breaks the promise until he realizes
how low he’d fallen. In one point in the
song Amy Winehouse sings that if her dad thinks she’s fine she probably wont go
to rehab. This is similar to Jimmy’s situation because he didn’t feel as though
what he was doing was wrong because he had support from his friends like Luke
and Wendy. After a while of Jimmy doing Wendy goes to jail and one day she
tells Jimmy that she will go into rehab after she gets out of jail so she can
be clean once and for all. Luke starts to think more of himself and his child
because he knows he needs to support his kid so Luke stops tagging along with
Jimmy to do drugs. Jimmy, near the end of the book, finds himself alone on the
street. He then realizes without anyone supporting him doing drugs he decided
to then ask for help. Luckily Jimmy eventually stopped doing drugs after his
trial unlike Amy Winehouse who sadly died due to alcohol intoxication.
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