In Impulse by Ellen Hopkins, Connor, Tom, and Vanessa are all good people that got under the influence to attempt the wrong thing, suicide. Connor let what he thought was love take over his natural train of thought. In the end, when it wasn't love, he turned to alcohol and then a gun to over come the pain. Tom's father left him when he was very young with his abusive mother. His mother didn't accept him for being gay, and beat him because of it. This all resulted in him taking over dosages on pills. Vanessa's mother would beat her constantly and then ended up in a psycho institution. Vanessa then found a razor blade to be so relieving of all her pain, that she would cut over and over again. The result, her brother found her in their grandmother's what use to be white bath tub, passed out.
So everyone is a good person, some just feel like they have no other choice but to do the wrong thing. It can be because of the influence they are under that causes them to do such revolting things. In this case they thought the stress would go away and that the world would be better without them, but the world gave them a second chance.
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