Looking At Our Books Through a Lens of Justice and Fairness. Crash By:Jerry Spinelli. Tanzim Ahmed

          After reading thirty-four pages of Jerry Spinelli’s CRASH, I asked myself “who has power” in this text? How does that power get shown?” I found that answer not too far from the start. John Coogan, a boy that everyone calls “Crash” has become a “friend” of Penn Webb, a Quaker from North Dakota. Penn is very nice but also very gullible. He likes to play with his toy wagon and his turtle. Penn is very good, but so good that he’ll listen to anything that Crash tells him to-do. Crash realizes this and takes advantages of this. He keeps changing his name every time Penn asks him. First, his name is “Megatroid”, and then it’s, “Humphries”. Crash abuses his power that he has over Penn and uses it against him. A few years later when Crash goes to 2^nd grade, he makes a new friend named Mike. Mike and Penn have many similarities and become best friends almost instantly. On the first day of school Mike and Crash go and meet Penn. Mike does a crazy hand with him and pretends to be his friends. They both make fun of his clothes in away where Penn won’t notice. This is an example of abuse of power because it shows how one person takes advantage of another person’s inability to have the same humor as another person.