Notes from the Midnight Driver 2

My book called "Notes from the Midnight Driver" is about a child named Alex. One night Alex decided to drink some of his fathers vodka and get drunk. He then choose to grab some keys to his moms Dodge and drive around drunk. Until he faced reality and crashed into the sidewalk and he got minor injuries but he thought he killed someone because a police officer on the scene said that there was body parts on the grass. Alex then started to tear up until the officer pointed out that he killed a lawn gnome and Alex then realized that there was no blood and that it was just a gnome.

My article is about teen drunk driving and it was interesting to find that most of the cases are high school students (16-20 yrs old) are at risk to get into a car accident because of drunk driving. It says in the article," The percentage of teens in high school who drink and drive has decreased by more than half since 1991." I asked myself what year does my book take place in because this might be a reason why. Another question that surfaced is why drunk driving decreased in the past few years. As I kept reading it was mostly because of new laws that were put into effect.

These two pieces of writing have many things in common. One of these things caught my eye, the topic of the two are very similar. The topic that is similar is both include drunk teens driving in cars and possibly killing themselves.

"Teen Drinking and Driving." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 02 Oct. 2012. Web. 12 May 2017

Sonnenblick, Jordan. Notes from the midnight driver. New York: Scholastic, 2015. Print.