In the second chapter Marvin introduces, he is an alcoholic man. All addictions …show more content…
Addiction is defined when a behavior is extremely obsessive and the person is not capable to get control of feelings. In chapter five Sean is introduced and a good description of him is this” But Sean suspects that he has long crossed the line from typical teenage obsession to sex addiction” Denizen-Lewis (2009, p. 40).
Addictions or bad habits might start by the influenced of somebody else, this is the case of Janice a fifty-five year old woman with a character that Denizet- Lewis(2009, p. 45) exemplified " everyone kept pestering Janice to try it." Come on," her downstairs neighbor said. "It's not going to hurt you!". At first, the affected person falls in the vicious cycle because they want to be accepted, they feel that they are different. But they do not realize, at the end they are going to end up without controlling the addition and losing everything. In chapter seven Jody decides to make changes after recovering from his addictions, Denizet-Lewis (2009),drugs, booze, gambling). Some ex-addictions decides to make a change in their life and help others because they know that people can learn from the experiences. Warren, Hof, McGriff & Morris (2012) states that learning from experiences permits to gain more contact with the