However he seems to view it more as an act of love. Conner's rape is taken very seriously, and is part of the reason he's at Aspen Springs in the first place. Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Subverted.It's a gun in both books, as Tony and Vanessa give it to Cara in the final pages of Perfect. Bungled Suicide / Interrupted Suicide: How each of the narrators got into Aspen Springs.Most of the kids (Kendra especially) haven't really resolved their issues by the time the book ends, and the final page is Cara getting handed the paper airplane from the end of Impulse, which readers of that novel will recognize as the note Conner's parents wrote him that drove him over the edge. Perfect: Also ends with Conner's suicide and funeral, but from this perspective, it can seem somewhat more of a Downer Ending.Impulse: Both Tony and Vanessa resolve to work on their respective issues and also become a couple, right before Conner jumps off a cliff and dies.Also seemed he was beginning to take this view of himself compared to his sister, too. Always Second Best: Conner to his twin sister in the eyes of his parents.Abusive Parents: Vanessa's mother, Tony's mother, both of Conner's parents.It's probably quicker to list the characters who don't have abusive or absent parents.Impulse and its companion novel Perfect provides examples of: Not related to a Digital Distribution service known as Impulse that sells videogames, or the DC Comics hero named Impulse. It takes place at the same time as Impulse but follows four different characters (including Conner's twin sister, Cara), although the storylines overlap at various points. In 2011, a companion novel entitled Perfect was published.

The whole novel follows their stay at the center for approximately one year, also serving out flashbacks from the perspective of each of the characters to show what led to their suicide attempts, and, ultimately, how they got there. All three meet at Aspen Springs, a Residential Treatment Center for minors. Impulse is a verse novel by Ellen Hopkins, centering around main protagonists Vanessa, Conner and Tony.

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